Camera Quotes
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Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
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When I was a kid, I would make kung fu movies with the kids in the neighborhood, and I would be the guy behind the camera directing everybody, but they were all very silly little shorts and comedy bits.
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You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
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I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
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My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!
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A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
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I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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I don't like, and I've never been very good at, close-up shots. As soon as you have the camera right there in front of you, it feels like you're in a different reality from the person you are acting with; you lose any real connection with them.
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You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.
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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.
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When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.
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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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I've wanted to do some sort of acting stuff down the line, but modeling is a good way to get comfortable in front of the camera.
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I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
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3D is not a fire and forget tool. It takes a lot of very careful consideration and it will change your approach to where you put the camera so 3D isn't for everybody.
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As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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You don't make a photograph just with a camera.
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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
