Eras Quotes - Page 5

Life as it unfolds in front of the camera is full of so much complexity, wonder and surprise that I find it unnecessary to create new realities. There is more pleasure, for me, in things as-they-are.

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

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

If this is how science operates, by silencing those who express opposing views rather than by debating with them, then science is dead and we are in a new era of the Inquisition.

The more you try to erase me The more, the more The more that I appear

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.

We stand now at the turning point between two eras. Behind us is a past to which we can never return...

I participated in the transformation of my era. I did it with clothes, which is surely less important than music, architecture, painting but whatever it's worth I did it.

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.

You should always know when you're shifting gears in life. You should leave your era - it should never leave you.

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.

The stage has been reached where our armed forces should withdraw beyond the borders It's not the end. It's the start of a new era.

I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.

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.