Camera Quotes
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Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.
Vidya Balan -
I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
Forest Whitaker
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The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter Benjamin -
I make the woman look at the camera as a symbol of all the eyes that will see the picture I am making.
Philippe Halsman -
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
Beau Bridges -
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
Yousuf Karsh -
I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
Olivia Munn -
Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.
Rachel Morrison
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With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing.
Walker Evans -
It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
Jackie Chan -
I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
Lara Flynn Boyle -
The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger -
Whereas if you have a camera in the courtroom, there's no filtering. What you see is what's there.
Lance Ito -
The second I walk onto the set and I know that there's a camera and I know that there's a David Twohy behind that camera, there is zero pressure. There is just me jumping into a pool called 'Riddick.' It's the most free I am. It's like channeling something.
Vin Diesel
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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.
Jack White The White Stripes -
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.
Patrick Schwarzenegger -
I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
Taylor Kitsch -
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.
Gabrielle Aplin -
I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
Patrice Leconte -
I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.
Steven Spielberg
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Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
LaToya London -
A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
Karel Reisz -
Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
Gary Cole -
I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
Candy Crowley