Quotes About Camera

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

I'd like to direct myself but I'm a cinephile and I also would like to just step behind the camera and be on the other end of making movies.

I like to work, and I worked for years as a camera person before I directed.

I don't even consider directing Burt. I just say, 'Hey, Burt, the camera's here. Read the joke and let's get onto the next shot.'

It is not easy acting and directing yourself because you have to face the camera as well as look at the scene through the lens.

A Leica camera is a camera we can keep both eyes open. You can look for the free eye that doesn't look to viewfinder and in all directions. It's like backwards - and sometimes also backwards, and you can look for the viewfinder and see your picture.

There is this awkward discomfort when you're doing comedy on camera because people aren't allowed to laugh so that they can get a clean take and you're doing the same thing over and over again.

I never have broken up in comedy, ever. There's something about me that I just don't break on camera - maybe because I'm just so cheap, and I know how expensive it is to shoot - but I broke on 'Sordid Lives,' and I broke on 'The Office.' Those are the only two times in my life.

You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.

My father filmed me all the time as a kid, and that's how I was first exposed to a camera.

Sometimes you're watching a great film actor, and if you stand 10 feet away from them, you're like, 'God, they're terrible. They're not doing anything.' And then you see the close-up, and it's so nuanced, and so much expression is happening. They were acting for that camera and for no one else.

The concept of Red was to build a camera with as much capability as possible... for the professional market. Then we thought we could extend it down a bit to the prosumer level. Apparently, that was a mistake.

The power of a close-up can be extraordinary, but you have to have actors who are able to reveal themselves.

As an actress I have faced the camera a lot many times but you always feel nervous before the first shot.

I first faced the camera without even knowing there was a camera. I was in class 6 in Surat. It was a 'nritya-natika' covered by DD National and aired on DD Gujarati.

The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

I'm an actor by choice and I love facing the camera. There's a little bit of exhibitionism in all of us. We like the limelight.

I was confident while facing the camera because I was comfortable in front of a live audience.

I have been taking classes and I'm familiar with stage, but I'm not as familiar with acting on camera.

Although I have not done too many films as a child artiste, the advantage is that you are familiar with the world of movies and it is easier to face the camera.

I think familiarity breeds contempt. I mean, we'll never get another Greta Garbo will we? Someone would go in with a camera Sellotaped to the bottom of a tray trying to get film of her with no make-up on.

I was in Calcutta and my parents had an offer for me to feature in Falguni Pathak's music video, produced by Universal Music. I was in Class 9 then, and pleaded to decline the offer because I was too shy. My parents explained that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I was in tears because I was too shy and conscious in front of the camera.

I'm kind of a tech geek. With the camera work, I chose to shoot super 16, which has a real tactile feel. I feel it's as authentic as possible; I love the way the grain feels.

When I've had to edit my albums, I'll listen to it one time through, and I'll make edits. I want to remember to set up a camera to record myself listening to my set, because I don't even slightly crack a smile, I am just listening for technical details, and I look like somebody that has absolutely no sense of humor. I look insane.