Top 1200 Camera Obscura Quotes & Sayings - Page 19
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Last updated on April 20, 2025.
I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
The camera seems to me, next to unassisted and weaponless consciousness, the central instrument of our time.
I'm an actor by choice and I love facing the camera. There's a little bit of exhibitionism in all of us. We like the limelight.
If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work.
I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.
I've always said Thomas Edison invented the movie camera to show people killing and kissing.
Usually people are apprehensive about facing the camera for the first time. But for me, it was the most natural thing.
It's very simple... this banging around with a camera and typewriter as a business is just one helluva lot of fun.
Eventually I'm going to be too old to be on camera, and I've been doing stand-up a long time.
For my money, when you're doing an on-camera performance, unless it's for something particularly stylised, you are, by and large, striving for naturalism.
When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.
It is definitely mostly due to the invention of the camera that all this design and emphasized paint quality have come into painting.
I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.
The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome!
To wish for the crazy times one last time and freeze it in the memory of a camera is the least a great artist can do.
I was the only woman fooling around with a camera in the streets and all the reporters laughed at me. So I became a fighter.
It took me a solid four or five years to feel really comfortable in front of the camera.
Some actors merely have to appear before the camera and they are able to convey exactly what the director wants.
When I'm not in front of the camera, I'm just like any other normal person. I'm a student. I eat when I'm stressed.
I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
I fell in love with the place! You know, the people, the bourbon, the music... it's in the air. It's something you can't describe on camera.
I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.
Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
If you have a block of ballistics gelatin and a high-speed camera, pretty soon somebody gets a gun!
I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.
The first time I went behind the camera was in 1993. I felt, 'This is my thing,' and I knew that someday I'd make a feature.
An amateur can be great in front of the camera, but you need an education to get on stage where you have full control as an actor.
I would call myself a radio performer who has just jumped in front of the camera and is very happy.
I have always loved taking pictures. When I was young, I would carry a small camera with me on the sets.
You have license in front of the camera to do things, feel certain emotions that you don't get to in real life. It can be addicting.
We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.
And the president should be doing more about education than saying, 'Lights, camera, action.'
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.
There are only two hard things in photography; which way to point the camera and when to release the shutter.
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
I don't even know how people drove, back in the day, without a rear view camera.
I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking.
It can be insulting to an actor when the director comes out, and they have no notes on the performance, and all they care about is that the camera has to do this one technical thing.
I have this personality, where I'm a natural introvert in my personal life, but when you give me a camera and microphone, I have a so much to say.
For that is the power of the camera: seize the familiar and give it new meanings, a special significance by the mark of a personality.
I think at some point I am going to throw in the belt and decide to stick behind the camera.
It was always my dream to be a New York theater actor. I never thought I was pretty enough to be on camera.
With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences.
As a director, I like trying to unlock the subtext of the scene and try to put the camera in a place that helps that.
I guess you can't really turn a camera on outside in Texas without getting Terrence Malick comparisons.
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.
With all its technical sophistication, the photographic camera remains a coarse device compared to the human hand and brain.
I never use powder unless I'm about to be in front of a camera. I don't need that matte, crunchy feeling.
In Europe and America, you never see a director pick up a camera. They all sit behind monitors.
Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
I don't think I knew that much about camera placement and working with actors when we did 'Half Nelson.'
The camera hound of the future wears on his forehead a lump a little larger than a walnut.
In 1988, before I'd written a word for a car magazine or stood in front of a camera, I was a subeditor on 'The Engineer.'
The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.
I don't work with anyone. I have no editors. I have no directors. There's no one even holding the camera or anything. It's just me in my apartment.
The only time I was really free was when the director said 'Action' in front of a camera or on the stage, and that's when I flew.
