Camera Quote by Erica Jong

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

The camera has an uncanny ability to capture the world as it is, to seize events as they happen, and also to conjure visions…

— A. O. Scott

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has…

— John Berger

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of…

— Susan Sontag

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

— Mike Figgis

The camera is your way to see what you want to see - it's an extension of the director's fantasy. I'm executing my personal…

— Liz W. Garcia

I want the camerawork to fit the narrative and tell the story from the point of view of the character, but sometimes, to be…

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to…

— David Hurn

You have to understand where the camera needs to me. There were times where you were suddenly aware where the cameras were, then you…

— Jonathan Glazer

The camera is a fluid way of encountering that other reality

— Jerry Uelsmann

I find it strangely beautiful that the camera with its inherent clarity of object and detail can produce images that in spite of themselves…

— Joel Meyerowitz

There's something essentially fictive about a photograph. That doesn't mean that if you understand that, and you understand how the world is transformed by…

— Stephen Shore