Eras Quotes - Page 9

To be an artist or a writer is to be this weird thing - a hand worker in an era of mass production.

Nothing is staged. And nothing is already there. Everything is transformed through the camera.

I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.

The artist of today is more than an improved camera, he is more complex, richer, and wider. He is a creature on the earth and a creature within the whole, that is, a creature on a star among stars.

There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.

Once you read something, you can't erase it from your brain.

I learned quickly at Columbia that the only eye that mattered was the one on the camera.

I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

Let the subject generate its own photographs. Become a camera.

External things are not the problem. It's your assessment of them. Which you can erase right now.

I only take vitamin B complex. Before World War II, I used to take ionized yeast, because in the pre-war era we never heard about vitamins.

We are the two great painters of this era; you are in the Egyptian style, I in themodern style. (to Pablo Picasso)

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.

The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

Someday I will tell my grandchildren that I lived in the era when OK was abbreviated to K.

We are at the beginning of a new era of immunochemistry, namely the production of "antibody based" molecules.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

I don't hide from cameras or anything. It doesn't bother me. I don't seek our press for the women I'm dating, but if it finds me, it finds me.

I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

In an era of global abundance, our world has the resources to reduce dramatically the massive divides that persist between rich and poor, if only those resources can be unleashed in the service of all peoples.

You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.

[The camera] may be said to make a picture of whatever it sees, the object glass is the eye of the instrument - the sensitive paper may be compared to the retina.