I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the…

So sweet and delicious do I become, when I am in bed with a man who, I sense, loves and enjoys me, that the…

— Veronica Franco

The eyes are the windows of your soul, and when you're acting, they're one of your most important instruments. Especially for close-ups!

— Jacki Weaver

I love to do very long and complicated scenes. I like to have this impression that we are all working together, where you can…

— Catherine Deneuve

I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

— Emmanuel Lubezki

I don't do close-ups any more. I am better looking from the waist downwards.

— Bruce Forsyth

If it was up to me, we would eliminate close-ups and beautiful light and sound - because we want to go back to basics.

— Pilou Asbaek

For me, there's far too many close-ups in film. They're a television technique.

— Sam Levinson

TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.

— Sushant Singh Rajput

I dreaded doing close-ups.

— Jessie Matthews

I don't mind close-ups, I like them, but they're kind of forceful - you see a lot, you get a lot of information in…

— David Duchovny

If you push in every time there's a big moment, then the tenth time you push in, you're not going to get the same…

— Annette Bening

Obviously in the close-ups we bring extras around or we do it later, but them running in and the big shots, they don't know.…

— Jaume Collet-Serra

There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for close-ups. It makes you very aware.

— Tig Notaro

In standup, you don't have anything near you except a microphone. There's something a lot more self-conscious feeling when there's cameras coming in for…

— Tig Notaro

As a film director I like to have the actors create their own close-ups. It's an older style of filmmaking.

— Stanley Tucci