Camera Quotes · Page 25

“There is a danger in letting a camera make all its preprogrammed decisions for you:”

— Robert Hirsch

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

— Kevin Smith

For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark…

— Alfred Stieglitz

There are more real dancers now. It used to be that they would dub in the taps and obscure the lack of…

— Vera-Ellen

Guru Dutt was a serious person, yes. He used to be very impatient, not with the artistes, but with the technicians -…

— Waheeda Rehman

We don't write jokes or anything, the furthest we'll go is we'll repeat certain jokes for the camera.

— David Dobrik

I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing.

— Sania Mirza

We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

— Dziga Vertov

I was always painting when I was a kid. But then when I handled a camera when I was 17, that was…

— David LaChapelle

I didn't want to go marching down the street with camera crews. Oy. To get married? Really? It seems like you have…

— Neil Patrick Harris

I took myself out of the business to study film at NYU and the School of Visual Arts. I grew up on…

— Devin Ratray

Comedy, when it works, is light on its feet and has the illusion of complete spontaneity: as if there is no film,…

— David Dobkin

My mom had a huge video camera that I would always play with, and there is home video of me, like, with…

— Rick Gonzalez

When I'm in a movie, what I always do, instead of sitting in a trailer or watching a DVD, is I go…

— Tim Blake Nelson

I think that there's an infinite amount of places where you can stick a camera. There's an infinite amount of choices of…

— Darren Aronofsky

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they…

— Mario Testino

I'm just an actor when the camera's on. The rest of the time I'm just Kenny, and I just do what I…

— Ken Wahl

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

— Michael Spiller

As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love.

— Lawrence Blume

[The small camera] taught me energy and decisiveness and immediacy ... The large camera taught me reverence, patience, and meditation.

— Joel Meyerowitz

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I…

— Tamara Ecclestone

The less friendly your relationship is on camera, the more useful it is to be friends with them off camera.

— Harry Lloyd

Even though I was playing myself on 'NCIS,' it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.

— Maren Morris

Life is like a camera, Focus on whats important, Capture the good times, Develop from the negatives, and if things dont work…

— Jazmine

When you go live, anything can happen. It excites me because it means I have to be on. When the camera's on,…

— Bobby Roode

It's not just about learning the dialogue and facing the camera, you must somewhat live the role and not always be acting…

— Waheeda Rehman

The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative…

— Carlos Fuentes

A lot of people don't like to eat on camera, but I eat on camera all the time. I'm standing in for…

— Rick Bayless

I think people forget that when they see you on television, it's not like the camera's gone on and I'm doing what…

— Alex Brooker

Photography to me is an addiction. I get jittery after a couple of days without a camera. Everyone who knows me says…

— Rankin

Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.

— Rebecca MacKinnon

When roles that mattered to me started drying up, I took to the brush and camera to connect with myself and the…

— Deepti Naval

If I have anything to give you through camera, it must be of myself. … A gnawing burns inside … to make…

— Minor White

If you focus your energy on the camera, it takes away from the time you have to focus on the performances.

— Spike Jonze

Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.

— Vidya Balan

I am better suited to be behind the camera. Frankly, I don't miss being an actor.

— Divya Khosla Kumar

I could never imagine myself acting in front of a camera or doing anything in front of the camera. I was a…

— Disha Patani

There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?'

— Rod Lurie

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

— Ryan Phillippe

I've always been up for a challenge, and you gotta connect with the camera and the audience the same way you gotta…

— Brady Jandreau