Camera Quotes

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.

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

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.

I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.

I'm a fan of making films. Whether I'm on stage or in front of a camera, one of my first loves is performing for the people. I'd like to do more acting.

My invention, (the motion picture camera), can be exploited... as a scientific curiosity, but apart from that it has no commercial value whatsoever.

I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.

It's taken me 15 years to step behind a camera and make something everyone agrees looks like a movie.

Unlike others who have been caught swearing on camera, I apologised immediately. And yet I am the only person banned for swearing. That doesn't seem right.

I checked myself out in that funeral parlour scene. I saw myself laughing, because there was a shot of Ed and I together and Mary was right in back of us. My head turned from the camera and I saw myself laughing, because Mary was absolutely brilliant in that thing.

You can do really slow movements with it, like zooming in for a minute and a half. The audience isn't aware that the camera has moved, but there's subconscious tension there.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on 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 love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.

I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

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.