Eras Quotes - Page 15

Your eyes is camera and your brain is a file cabinet.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

[on making the transition from the comedy "Mary Tyler Moore" (1970) to its dramatic spin-off series "Lou Grant" (1977)] We were really worried about changing over from a three-camera, half-hour comedy to a one-camera, full-hour drama. The audience wasn't ready for the switch - even CBS billed us in their promos as a comedy. In fact, the whole thing was impossible. But we didn't know that.

You put your camera around your neck along with putting on your shoes, and there it is, an appendage of the body that shares your life with you. The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.

Life without kids is like a camera without film.

If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.

The similarity between Van Gogh, Haiku poetry, and good photography is the concern for mortality. That things are very fleeting, that there are people who are more sensitive to death than others. The threat of time is of great concern to them. And the camera is a very appropriate instrument for many.

She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment.

The use of the camera has always been for me a tool of investigation, a reason to travel, to not mind my own business, and often to get into trouble.

Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad.

My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.

We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.

By sight and observation and thought, with the help of the camera, and the addition of the date of the year, we can hold fast the history of the world.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

The main reason I went to digital was because I got time-lapse, video, and still images all in one camera. Having a minimal amount of gear is really important for someone who wants to walk around. That allowed me to have this flexibility to document things in different ways.

I love the Digital Era! I grew up in a time that started from cassette tapes.

What most artists using photography feel that they need to do is to show that they are serious, that they are not taking snapshots. To point a camera at something does not qualify you as an artist because everybody has done that.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

I smell blood and an era of prominent madmen.

I prefer working behind the camera.

He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television." "Are you and Beetee going?" I ask. "As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.

Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are

People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy.

... an era of turmoil and ideological confusion, the principal phenomenon of the present age.