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Quotes About Camera

My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.'
~ James Caan
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
~ John Berger
You don't have to say that nature is aware of your existence, that God knows you are here. The camera gives you proof that you have lived at least once.
~ Lucas Samaras
There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop
~ Tyra Banks
Eighty percent of a picture is writing, the other twenty percent is the execution, such as having the camera on the right spot and being able to afford to have good actors in all parts.
~ Billy Wilder
In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.
~ Harry Shearer
I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film.
~ Lee Daniels
History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.
~ David Wojnarowicz
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 aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for my need to create a more beautiful world around me.
~ Mike Ruiz
If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.
~ Rita Rudner
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
There exists an infinite universe between the boundaries of light and darkness; the photographer explores this chasm in a ship of the imagination, that is the camera.
~ David Travis
If you are what you say you are A superstar Then have no fear The camera's is here and the microphones and they wanna know Oh oh oh oh yeah If you are what you say you are Then have no fear
~ Lupe Fiasco
Stanley Kubrick gave this advice to aspiring filmmakers: "Get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all."6 Kubrick knew that when you're new at something, you need to start creating. The most important thing is to begin. So get a camera, hit Record, and start shooting.
~ Jason Fried
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
~ Gordon Parks
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
~ Rowan Atkinson
It's not terrifying to watch 'Mindhunter,' necessarily, but it's just unsettling. You can find Aileen Wuornos just talking to a camera. It's hard to watch. Her eyeballs, they are just terrifying.
~ Cameron Britton
I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
~ F. Gary Gray
I'm comfortable in front of a camera, and I'm used to being watched, although that kind of bugged me at first. On the stage, though, I'm scared. I really get frightened in front of people.
~ Andie MacDowell
And then we watched an amazing number of movies from the late '60s and '70s, which is my favorite time, and we studied their camera movements, their stocks, the way they lit stuff, the colors they used.
~ Ted Demme
Even today, my father watches my films only in the theatre with the general public. And he's very tough. His first call will be to the director and the camera man, and only then will he send me a message.
~ Suriya
I hate it when you are watching a movie where the characters are on the news, and for some reason they shoot it with a 35mm camera or a 4K camera, and they just put it on the TV as if that's the way it would look - it always takes me out of it by putting a filter on certain things. If it's too high quality, you're never gonna buy it.
~ Adam Wingard
Every camera shoots horizontal, right? So we're all super used to framing things with lots of horizontal room. We've seen this new wave of Snapchat stories and Instagram stories where people are actually framing for and recording in vertical. Whether it's better or not is debatable.
~ Marques Brownlee