Eras Quotes - Page 13

The nature of the video camera really makes you focus on the present. Since I have always been a diarist filmmaker, not one who stages scenes with actors, it has always been about the present moment.

There is this false perception that comedians can never be serious. It's like from like the era of court jesters.

The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light.

I grew up in an era where an orchestra was like a treasure chest.

There is no such thing as a good paparazzo. A good paparazzo, that's a paparazzo who has had his camera broken. In fact, they are bandits, thieves of photography. (Statement after photographs were published showing Jackie Onassis sunbathing nude.)

One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. To live a visual life is an enormous undertaking, practically unattainable. I have only touched it, just touched it.

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.

Photography is the act of "fixing" time, not of "expressing" the world. The camera is an inadequate tool for extracting a vision of the world or of beauty.

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

I hope we'll be able to see that in our lifetime: the end of the camera! When I'm in Paris, I'll buy a big bottle of champagne and I'll save it for that day, for the day when they'll be no more camera.

You pick up a camera because something has been revealed to you in the landscape or in the human-scape. And you have no choice because it's a gift. And it's like, oh right, I better start doing this!

I constantly doubt myself. I only feel confident in front of the camera.

For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool.

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear.

It is also an era dominated by industry, in which the right to make a dollar at whatever cost is seldom challenged.

When I start a film, I can sort of shut my eyes, sit somewhere quiet and imagine the movie finished. I can imagine the camera angles, I can even imagine the type of music. Without knowing the tune, I can imagine the type of music it needs to be.

If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

The era of playing aggressive cricket and to have the mid-on up is gone. You now try to read the mindset of a batsman.

I've managed to keep a clear head and remain sane in this business because I remain a kid off-camera.

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.

I loved having a crew. I loved being the person who woke at six in the morning and knew where to put the camera. I loved watching the actresses cry, and to know that if you were clever and didn't do too many rehearsals, that it just came that way.

No matter what era we're in, we need hope.

I just use [the camera]. I just pick it up like an axe when I've got to chop down a tree. I pick up a camera and go out and shoot the pictures I have to shoot.

The easiest thing I can say is simple, but paradoxical in this era of total sampling: Be original.

With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.