Top 1200 Camera Obscura Quotes & Sayings - Page 18
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.
I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.
It's not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.
A hidden camera must never become a lazy substitute for the rigours of old-style reporting.
One of the interesting things about my father was that what you see on-camera is a lot of what he was like in real life.
I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.
I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer.
It's your own fault for being so camera-ready," I tell Gale. If looks could kill.
Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera.
I hate watching myself on camera. I guess a lot of people feel that way, though.
No matter how long a break you take, an actor does feel comfortable in front of the camera.
I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
My first time in front of a camera, I said, 'Wonder Woman, I'm so glad you're here.' That's how I made a living.
There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
When the attention is on me, off-camera, I get uncomfortable - sort of shy and at a loss for words, as you can probably tell?
If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.
I do come alive in front of a camera. The first video I ever made was a formative moment for me.
Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.
I avoided the spotlight when I was a kid. I always knew, 'Hey, it wasn't me. I didn't do anything.' If there was a camera around, I hid from it.
I have been modelling since I was four years old so facing the camera is second nature to me.
There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera.
In front of the camera, I find it difficult. As far as the actors are concerned, it is easy for them to do it but not for me.
You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.
Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.
I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
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 felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.
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.
Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
I'm quite uncomfortable in front of the still camera. I find it very constrictive, all that posing around.
To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
'Heyy Babyy' needed fast cutting and eye contact. It didn't need fancy camera angles.
You had to make everything much more truthful for the camera. With the stage it's a given that it's going to be theatrical.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
When I use the camera, I often feel likeI know part of the people or places I come in contact with.
The best advice I received when I started out was to think about the camera or microphone as if it was a person to connect with.
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
I don't stand behind the camera drooling. Knowing that, the models are more likely to open up and relax.
I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
When you're on set you don't realize the way something is going to look since you're on the other side of the camera.
I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.
People think that all cameramen do is point the camera at things, but it's a heck of a lot more complicated than that.
The one thing that I'm really obsessed with is multi-camera comedy. It is a form that is unique to network television.
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens.
The possibility of being as free with the camera as we are with the pen is a fantastic prospect for the creative life of the 21st century.
I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.
If we put the camera on ourselves, our friends and neighbors, we'll come up with some scary stuff.
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
I love to have a very bright center of my face. I learned that on 'Jessie'... it looks great on camera.
When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.
Leica, schmeica. The camera doesn't make a bit of difference. All of them can record what you are seeing. But you have to see.
He [Viggo Mortensen] was standing behind the camera throwing the apples … And I’ve never seen him so happy.
