Camera Quotes

I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera.

Sheridan is still there, he's the president of the Alliance, everything that was in place when the series is there is still there, we're just moving the camera over a couple of light years.

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.

I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it's certainly not easy.

I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.

I used to fly around the stage without strings or camera tricks. That took seven years to create.

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

If you've seen a photo of me from when I was a kid, I don't think anyone would have expected that going in front of the camera was something that I was going to do. I can't believe how little effort my parents put into making me seem like an appealing little girl.

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

As a little girl, I was always shy, but in front of the camera I wasn't.

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.

I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.

I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.

It occured to me the other day that I've made out with more people on camera than I have in real life!

In the South or in the mine country, wherever you point the camera there is a picture.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.

There's something inimical about the camera and song.

I thought that it would be easier to learn that if I worked in motion pictures. So I went to work with one motion picture producer who was developing a color system. This didn't do to me much good. All I did was pick filters for the camera.

In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

Oh yeah - I watched Knife in the Water, saw the shot, and repeated it. But even if I hadn't seen that film, inevitably the camera would've ended up on top of that mast, I mean if you think of it there are only so many dynamic shots on a boat.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

I confess it, I love the camera. When it's not on me, I'm not quite alive.

I love the incredible variety of demands directing makes on you, from the entrepreneur to the hustler to the deal-maker to the writer; to directing actors and the camera and working with music, sound, marketing and promotion. It uses so many sides of your brain.