Camera Quotes

• I came up in photography, and Dust Bowl-era photography is a lot of the reason that I got behind the camera in the first place.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Up
  • Place
  • Photography

• If you think and feel what you're supposed to think and feel, hard enough, it'll come out through your eyes - and the camera will see it.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • Eyes
  • Feel
  • Camera

• The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Words

• I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside.

  

  Bill Jay
  • Camera
  • Coffin
  • Obscura

• I kind of grew up with a camera in my hand.

  

  Rachel Morrison
  • Up
  • Kind
  • Hand

• The camera is more than a recorder, it's a microscope. It penetrates, it goes into people and you see their most private and concealed thoughts.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • People
  • Thoughts
  • Microscope

• The modern world is not given to uncritical admiration. It expects its idols to have feet of clay and can be reasonably sure that the press and camera will report their exact dimensions.

  

  Barbara Mary Ward, Baroness Jackson of Lodsworth
  • Admiration
  • Idols
  • Report

• Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting.

  

  Michael Spiller
  • Compromise
  • Gonna
  • Opposing

• The secret of photography is, the camera takes on the character and personality of the handler.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Character
  • Personality
  • Secret

• Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera.

  

  Eliot Porter
  • Photograph
  • Response
  • Tourist

• I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good.

  

  Ryan Ross Panic! at the Disco
  • Camera
  • Armpits
  • Smell Good

• There's nothing sillier than fake rough edges, like the handheld camera you sometimes see on "NYPD Blue," shaking and jittering around, unmotivated, way more than any actual documentary camera would.

  

  Andrew Bujalski
  • Way
  • Shaking
  • Sillier

• I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Time
  • Family

• Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Nature
  • Play
  • Problem

• I got my first camera when I was 21 - my boyfriend gave it to me for my birthday - but at that point politics was my life, and I viewed the camera as a tool for expressing my political beliefs rather than as an art medium.

  

  Carrie Mae Weems
  • Birthday
  • Boyfriend
  • Tool

• After twenty years you can begin to be sure of what camera will do.

  

  Brassaï
  • Camera

• I've dealt with a few method actors, and I don't know if should say this, but I think it's a bunch of nonsense. I think it's film acting and you just have to be on when the camera is rolling.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Actors
  • Bunch
  • Rolling

• Aging on camera is just very hard. I love my age. I feel good about myself but high definition television is not kind. You don't even look like yourself in high-def. It just makes every little line on your face more exaggerated so it ends up aging you. It's like you're watching yourself seven years older.

  

  Lisa Edelstein
  • Up
  • Good
  • High

• Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.

  

  Andreas Feininger
  • Record
  • Camera
  • Senses

• I don’t have a philosophy. I have a camera.

  

  Saul Leiter
  • Philosophy
  • Camera

• On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.

  

  Emilio Rivera
  • Together
  • Pretend
  • Screen

• We're seniors." "I know," I said "So aren't you... curious?" "About what?" "About life. Out there. Life!" she said again. "Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" We'd reached another door, and I stopped and looked up at the camera that monitored the entrance, just as I whispered, "Alive.

  

  Ally Carter
  • Life
  • Grow Up
  • Whispered

• Kodachrome, it gives us those nice bright colors Gives us the greens of summers Makes you think all the world's a sunny day, oh yeah! I got a Nikon camera, I love to take a photograph So momma, don't take my Kodachrome away.

  

  Paul Simon Simon & Garfunkel
  • World
  • Day
  • Photograph

• I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there.

  

  David Lee Roth Van Halen
  • Natural
  • Scenes
  • Attentions

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