Break Quote by Eve Arnold

For me, it's all about having the performers feel confident in their movements and surroundings. And then I'll figure out how to photograph it…

— Nicolas Winding Refn

Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it.

— Julia Voth

During my performances, I don't like folks to take pictures because I feel that we live in a very photographic time. Photography was invented…

— Xaviera Simmons

I found the recording sessions very freeing because you can really try things. When you're filming something, if you're improvising a film and you're…

— Tina Fey

Because of the tension and difficulty, I remember trying to do the silliest things when we weren't rolling cameras, anything to lift the spirits.…

— Madeleine Stowe

Photographers represented occasions once. You dressed for them as you might for church; they cost money, they recorded important moments.

— Michael Lesy

We used hand-held cameras 50 years ago. It wasn't something new. Sometimes we used a tripod, or we'd have a tracking shot, and sometimes…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

When you're filming, if you can't capture the relationships and interplay, that magical thing that transpires between musicians during a performance, then you're not…

— Jonathan Demme

We [musicians] are comfortable in front of the camera doing music videos, and it's almost a form of acting when we're doing music videos.…

— Ludacris

Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode - from…

— Ralph Gibson

Performing is the hardest thing. Even though I've done it for so many years, it's still exposing yourself. You suddenly become extremely vulnerable when…

— Julie Delpy

To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so…

— Lily Tomlin