Camera Quotes
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The problem with not having a camera is that one must trust the analysis of a reporter who's telling you what occurred in the courtroom. You have to take into consideration the filtering effect of that person's own biases.
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I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
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I mean, if a camera's on you all the time, you don't get real moments.
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What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
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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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I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
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I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.
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I have been doing commercials on camera since I was ten.
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Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
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The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
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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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If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
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I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.
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When I buy a Nikon camera, I have no tolerance for the instructions. I'm ready to make some mistakes using it and get some bad pictures back until I've figured it out for myself.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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You play a part, and as soon as a movie is over and the camera stops, you go home and you're not really responsible for what you've done.
Nastassja Kinski -
My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I love the camera angles. I love the music.
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
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If you already own high-quality lenses from a film SLR, you may be able to use them in a digital camera of the same brand, get high-quality pictures, and also save yourself some money in buying the camera.
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You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.
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You get some directors, and I can never understand it - there's a thing they call the 'video village' where all the monitors are, and you've probably seen it on set visits - I hate that! I never, ever like sitting in video village. I get either my own monitor or a hand held monitor, and I stand right by the camera.
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It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
