Camera Quotes · Page 27

[A Polaroid camera] places before you a thing that is more of the thing than the thing was.

— Edwin Land

Watching Sridevi emote was an experience. She was very quiet on the sets. But once in front of the camera, all her…

— Richa Pallod

I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.

— Ryan Eggold

“That's how hospitals get you. You go in to visit and before you know it they got a camera stuck up your…

— Janet Evanovich

Riding a horse and using a phone camera is tricky but if you don't take pictures or record the moment, you lose…

— Bill Bailey

History is made and preserved by and for particular classes of people. A camera in some hands can preserve an alternate history.

— David Wojnarowicz

I like a good cry - it's cathartic; it's a release. But I've never been able to be so free to do…

— Ray Romano

In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor…

— James May

When you're on camera, even though you try to lose yourself in the character, you are aware that there is a camera…

— Doug Jones

I remember films I made at university, which are unbelievably pretentious. Poetry that I'd written that I delivered to camera, against a…

— Julian Barratt

I'm staying with film, and with silver prints, and no Photoshop. That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in…

— Mary Ellen Mark

I was so used to documentary filming, where it's one take. You can't really say, 'Make that elephant charge again!' And you…

— Bindi Irwin

Naga Shaurya is a silent person and doesn't talk to anyone on the sets. But when he faces the camera, he is…

— Sai Pallavi

I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see…

— Roger Deakins

I got roles from good production houses, though I wasn't keen on them, as I was asked to - and I won't…

— Mouni Roy

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12…

— Steven Spielberg

In films, the camera catches each nuance of expression in close ups. On the stage, it is less subtle, you have to…

— Poonam Dhillon

I like that, in voice acting, you can play different characters than you can when you're on camera and you're limited by…

— Lacey Chabert

When I was nine I wrote my first little script and it was terrible and thank God none of us had a…

— Gareth Evans

Akshay Kumar is always on time. He is always disciplined and hard working but also always entertaining, fun behind the camera and…

— Aditi Rao Hydari

A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.

— Barkha Dutt

Having been on the other side of the camera gives me such perspective on what I'm doing.

— Dan Schneider

I think all of us have had tough times in our lives and we haven't had to do it on the glare…

— Leslie Grossman

I'd come up with one leg in theater, but never my first leg. I loved the camera too much.

— Tim Matheson

The concept of surveillance is ingrained in our beings. God was the original surveillance camera.

— Hasan M. Elahi

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Sometimes I've been on sets where no one knows why the camera is in the place that it is.

— Fred Hechinger

I think the camera is just so violent, and I think it's also so beautiful, and that tension is maybe one thing…

— RaMell Ross

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.

— Brendan Fehr

Being in the camera's eye is like stepping into a dream world, one that is often more interesting than real life.

— Sylvia Hoeks

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you…

— Stephen Rea

I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.

— Donald Trump

An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have…

— Joel Kinnaman

If I stand correctly in the mirror I can frame it so that I still have hair. But the camera doesn't lie.

— Paul Whitehouse

“A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to…

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I am drawn more towards Russian films owing to their compelling camera work, because of my own inclination towards cinematography.

— Victor Banerjee

I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.

— Jonathan Ke Quan

The modern and futuristic camera that I've ever know is EYE . With high-definition, Night-vision, and also non-battery needed

— Anonymous

It's not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the…

— Vijay Antony

Maybe it was escapism, but I had become obsessed with going to remote locations and keeping myself behind the camera.

— Cole Sprouse