Shooting Quote by Steve Irwin

I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I…

— Asa Butterfield

The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that…

— Doug Peacock

Guns have metamorphosed into cameras in this earnest comedy, the ecology safari, because nature has ceased to be what it always had been -…

— Susan Sontag

The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a…

— David Attenborough

Animals give me more pleasure through the viewfinder of a camera than they ever did in the crosshairs of a gunsight.

— James Stewart

“That's one reason wildlife films matter: they're a set of permanent memories we can all share, making real those things we have not seen…

— John Aitchison

Films take us into an entirely different world, and that's why we must ensure that our long shots do justice.

— Rajiv Menon

...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering…

— Bill Jay

We must avoid however, snapping away, shooting quickly and without thought, overloading ourselves with unnecessary images that clutter our memory and diminish the clarity…

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

Wildlife film-makers I know tell me that the effort to portray what looks like an untouched ecosystem becomes harder every year. They have to…

— George Monbiot

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig…

— John Dykstra