Cameraman Quotes

35 quotes by 34 authors

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a… — David Attenborough
Gene Mean, look at our body. Cameraman, zoom! — The Iron Sheik
My technicians are my most important tools. Once I establish a rapport with them, then they would understand me in my next film. I wouldn't… — Yash Chopra
A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their… — Gordon Cooper
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They… — Gordon Willis
There's a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there's a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as… — John Cassavetes
Directing ain't about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn't want to go to film school. I didn't know… — David Fincher
What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even… — Walker Evans
Whether you're a cameraman or a director, you should ask yourself every now and then, 'What am I trying to do?' Be honest and keep… — James Wong Howe
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology. — Barbara Steele
My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio,… — Satyajit Ray
There is the danger of over preparation, of loss of spontaneity; over rehearsal is the most terrible thing you can imagine. We do have a… — Terence Fisher
I think of the medium as a people-to-people medium, not cameraman-to-people, not direction-to-people, not writers-to-people, but people-to-peopleYou can only involve an audience with people. You… — Frank Capra
People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that. — Mary Baker Eddy
Every film I've ever worked on, and that includes 'Braveheart' and 'Trainspotting,' I've always witnessed a director having a breakdown. Every director will have a… — Peter Mullan
A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought Id try it, too, thinking… — Carson Daly
As a director, my job is to protect. I protect scripts, actors, cameramen, designers. — Stephen Frears
Baseball is meant to be fun, and not all the solemn money-men in fur-collared greatcoats, not all the scruffy media cameramen and sour-faced reporters that… — John Updike
I couldn't be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that… — Joe Wright
After the fall of the Soviet Union, if you start the clock, then 47 journalists, reporters, cameramen, photographers have been killed in Russia since the… — Daniel Silva

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