Camera Quote by Sam Esmail

The first thing that goes into shooting a scene is understanding whats on the page.

— Debbie Allen

When you step in front of a camera, and everybody is going to have their hyped-up personality, everyone is going to have the character…

— Jake Hager

With moviemaking, the audience always has to keep asking, 'What happens next?' If you have the wrong piece of music over a scene, people…

— Josh Fox

“Position on page Without other visual cues, most members of your audience will start at the top left of your visual or slide and…

— Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic

Onstage, there's a separation between character and audience; onscreen, you can go to a deeper place.

— Phyllida Lloyd

With a lot of films, people are sitting on the outside looking in, but I want the audience to get a bit more intimately…

— Andrea Arnold

There's an awful lot of scenes where we don't know what the scene's going to be about, we ask the audience, pick a place…

— Brian Henson

I look at the action scenes as placeholders when I arrive on a script, knowing that I'm going to expand on them when I…

— David Leitch

The audience is the camera. I don't want the audience to sit and watch, I want it to move.

— King Hu

I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at,…

— Christopher Nolan

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately.…

— Alfred Molina

When you have great performers and have set your movie in the right direction, it's a beautiful privilege to let the camera watch the…

— Luca Guadagnino