Camera Quotes
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You can always feel the cool whisper of surveillance when the film hits your flesh, the eye of the camera or simply the camera eye . . . faces of passersby, clientele, unpaid extras change completely as soon as they’re no longer observed.
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You can assume all photo and video is constructed as a fiction controlled by the person holding the camera and the person who is editing.
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The camera is the eye of history.
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What I'm trying to do is make the camera-work lyrical rather than fragmentary. It's a dance between the camera and the actors.
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With voice overs... you're not thinking about the camera. So your voice becomes this thing that you can manipulate. And depending on the character you're doing, it's all concentration on your voice.
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People were murdered for the camera; and some photographers and a television camera crew departed without taking a picture in the hope that in the absence of cameramen acts might not be committed. Others felt that the mob was beyond appeal to mercy. They stayed and won Pulitzer Prizes. Were they right?
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My first time in front of a camera, I said, 'Wonder Woman, I'm so glad you're here.' That's how I made a living.
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The angry mob of villagers wield camera phones, the twenty-first century equivalent of pitchforks and flaming torches.
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The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.
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I remember when someone told me phones were going to have cameras on them, and I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard. Why would you want a camera on your phone? But as we see the impact of it, it has allowed for a mass verification of what black people have been saying.
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It's a little strange, after all these years of working on camera, but once you start to watch the other people who do this a lot and realize how much of what you're doing has to just come through your voice, I found it really interesting.
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In Virginia Woolf I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could stand on this bicycle-like device and be pushed down the hall, and then step off it with a handheld camera.
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I consciously did away with fade-ins and replaced them with the cut. Henceforth, I never used such editing techniques again. In fact, neither dissolve, fade-in nor fade-out can be regarded as 'the grammar of film,' they are no more than characteristics of the camera.
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You know, the Chinese don't like to be photographed because they believe that a part of their life is being taken away by the photographer. And in a way, they're right. The photographer is trying to get the prettiest moment of a life in his camera.
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I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.
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The camera for an artist is just another tool. It is no more mechanical than a violin if you analyze it. Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.
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There is no excuse these days for someone who wants to make movies; you just need yourself, one tape and a borrowed camera.
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Getting out of a character is emotionally taxing. You get used to being a person on camera, and when you move on, the character remains with you for a long time.
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I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being.
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They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
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You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
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The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!
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There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.
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An autograph is actually refreshing because everyone has cameras now and wants a selfie. That's why I carry signed headshots with me, to give out.
