Camera Quotes
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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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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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My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.
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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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The camera and I have always had good chemistry.
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I like being on camera, performing, seeing what people have in common.
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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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The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
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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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My mom hates being on camera. My dad loves it - he eats it up!
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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 have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
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Sometimes you're not always on or at your best, especially during auditions. So if you go in and you don't nail it, even if they're like, 'We don't need to see you again,' get a friend, get a video camera, and film you doing the stuff again.
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I've decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know I'm safe.
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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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The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
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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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You don't make a photograph just with a 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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What you think is fake in your head comes off as not enough on camera, a lot of times. You almost have to overdo it, in this overly, sort of Broadway, large-gestures kind of way to come off as being realistic on camera. It's strange. You almost have to act really fake to come off looking real.
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
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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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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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When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.
