Cameras Quotes - Page 36

The camera gives you some control.

A camera gives you a purpose.

The thing about being a photographer that's so cool is that you get to participate, but you also get to disappear. The camera is in front of your face all the time.

In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.

With film acting, and often when the camera comes very close, you just have to think about something and the camera will pick it up.

With the camera you might even not need the reporters. But, you see, media can't trust you to watch [Barack] Obama without them telling you what you just saw and analyzing it.

If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.

I'm glad that so many of Donald Pease's unique and revealing insights on Dr. Seuss--observations he shared with me on camera with an effusiveness and profundity quite unmatched--have found their way into book form. No one tells these tales of young Ted, Mr. Geisel, and Dr. Seuss, and makes the connections between the three of them, quite like Dr. Pease.

I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage.

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

I love the cameras and don't mind mailing in my check when I fail to pay attention and go too fast.

I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors.

I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras.

Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.

Hardly anybody thinks about typing in their social security number as ID. Hardly anybody pays attention to the myriad of security cameras. There isn't anybody that worked on this show that doesn't look at security cameras differently than when they started.

I guess people wonder if I'm the same on camera as I am off, and I'm pretty much the same, I really am. But that's always asked of me.

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.

I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.