Cameras Quotes - Page 4

A camera exposes more than just an image. It also exposes the photographer.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

A saucer flew right over (us), put down three landing gears, and landed out on the dry lakebed. (The cameramen) went out there with their cameras toward the UFO.... I had chance to hold (the film) up to the window. Good close-up shots. There was no doubt in my mind that it was made someplace other than on this earth.

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman.

I'll be goddamned if I'm going to stay in a business where I have to get up earlier and earlier and it takes longer and longer for me to get in front of a camera.

I don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.

Everyone pretends to be normal and be your best friend, but underneath, everyone is living some other life you don't know about, and if only we had a camera on us at all times, we could go and watch each other's tapes and find out what each of us was really like.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.

The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera."

A portrait is not made in the camera but on either side of it.

I can't live and hold the camera, someone gotta take this

I'm not the type of person to act one way in front of the camera and another when it's off. What you see is what you get.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

Cameras get in the way of seeing.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

The head of the photographer is more important than his camera

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life.

Always carry a camera, it's tough to shoot a picture without one.

The complete disregard for the camera's presence indicates its complete saturation in their lives. The subject neither notices nor seems to care that someone has been invited into their private moment.

I myself have always stood in the awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.