Camera Quote by Mariette Hartley

Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

— David Lean

There's something about a live theater performance: You can't fake it.

— Gavin Creel

On the stage you try to act real. On the screen you try to be real.

— Shirley MacLaine

I've done scenes in films that I felt like the performance was better in certain takes, but they couldn't use them because it didn't…

— David Morse

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

— Poonam Dhillon

It's very different working on stage to film; the immediacy is there on stage.

— Raza Jaffrey

Until I'm on the set of a film, to me it's still not for real.

— James McAvoy

The cinema is a very truthful medium because the camera doesn't let you get away with anything. On stage, you can even loaf a…

— James Dean

I think you just have to be realistic to what the reality is, the way people experience movies.

— Adam Wingard

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

Filmmaking isn’t if you can just strap on a camera onto an actor, and steadicam, and point it at their face, and follow them…

— David Fincher

As an actor, the whole process of shooting for movie or television is so artificial though the final product may be extremely realistic to…

— Himani Shivpuri