Camera Quotes · Page 32

The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.

— Everett McGill

Skills are never taught, they are acquired. I can give you a camera, but can't feed your vision.

— Raghu Rai

“It isn't the camera that takes great shots, it is the photographer, don't forget this. I”

— Eric Dahlin

I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.

— Fede Alvarez

The first time I went behind the camera was in 1993. I felt, 'This is my thing,' and I knew that someday…

— Johan Renck

I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been…

— Nicole Holofcener

If you can be who you are on camera, which is not easy, then I think you're going to be successful.

— Matt Lauer

All actors are protecting something, in their own way, that happens in front of a camera.

— Todd Haynes

I accept all interpretations of my films. The only reality is before the camera. Each film I make is kind of a…

— Bernardo Bertolucci

In the grand spectrum of things in WWE, you are wrestling for that camera and that camera and that camera - and…

— Johnny Gargano

On stage I'm slightly nervous than when I'm in front of camera. Because when on the stage, the mind can't waiver but…

— Shriya Pilgaonkar

The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I…

— Bill Viola

There's a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera, and sometimes that requires a little more precision…

— Corey Reynolds

With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you…

— Vincent D'Onofrio

“Photography has saved me from going down, a completely different road. I can imagine if I wasn't photography, that I don't know…

— Denny Wiranda

“The camera is an instrument of detection…we photograph what we know and what we don’t know… when I point my camera at…

— Patricia Bosworth

My parents used to talk about Sergio Leone films a lot. And I got really into them. I love Clint Eastwood. I…

— Edgar Wright

'Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work.

— Jolene Purdy

The camera's dumb, it don't [sic] care who's pushing the button. It doesn't know.

— Garry Winogrand

It is part of my life, being in front of the camera all the time. It's not something that's new to me.

— Melania Trump

I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.

— Kathy Ireland

I would watch 'Punk'd' or 'Candid Camera' - I love the shows, but also I would feel bad about the people that…

— James Murray

Most of the time, I leave the camera on the obvious special effects, like the rubber bodies, so that it become obvious…

— Paul Morrissey

My dad gave me his camera, so I spent my childhood making movies with the kids in the neighborhood as actors.

— Michael Giacchino

The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!

— Camren Bicondova

I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating…

— Shannon Purser

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

— Gordon Parks

I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

On the set for 'Beetlejuice,' it was before people would go watch on monitors, and directors would be next to the camera.

— Winona Ryder

It's scary to work with family, alongside my brothers and uncle. I can't imagine myself screaming at them even in front of…

— Abhay Deol

For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college…

— Sam Abell

“Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been…

— Ida Løkås

I'm a model, I have to be confident in front of a camera otherwise I wouldn't be doing my job.

— Daisy Lowe

You can go into all sorts of situations with a camera and people will think they should serve it.

— Susan Sontag

Sometimes a camera comes out and people freeze up a little, and I'm like that with normal cameras, but with a film…

— Barry Keoghan

As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.

— Neil LaBute

To me, it's not about the lure of camera. It has always been a question of whether I can learn something new…

— Shobana

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with…

— Bill Frakes

I wish there was a camera that showed the beauty of people on the inside, not the outside.

— Anonymous