Camera Quotes
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I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday.
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It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.
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As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.
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I went to USC and tried to learn about the other side of the camera a little bit.
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I always had the feeling that something was going to happen in front of me, and when it did I wanted my camera to be there.
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The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
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The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera.
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Sometimes you meet someone, and they seem great, they seem exactly what you're thinking of for the role, and then you put a camera on them, and they freeze. And other people come to life with the camera on them. I haven't discovered any reliable predictor for that; I think you just have to try it and see what happens. And, you know, sometimes the people who freeze, if you find the right magic word to say to them, you can unlock them.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.
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It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.
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If you can show something as complicated as two people falling in love with just music and camera angles, well, just think about what you can do with football.
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I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.
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Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras.
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So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.
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I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
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I operate the camera, I always do it when I'm the director, and I like to approach it as a documentary, finding the images based on what happens, as it happens.
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I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the camera. You're looking for the shot.
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I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread.
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The photograph is not only a pictorial report; it is also a psychological report. It represents the feelings and point of view of the intelligence behind the camera.
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I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.
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No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.
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There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy.
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A digital camera has to be kept in check like a racehorse.
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Sitcoms are like summer stock. You put it up in three days, and then you do it in front of an audience, so it's a really great transition from theatre into camera work.
