Anytime you're the creative force behind something and in front of the camera - we're not complaining, but it is an avalanche of work.
I'd grab the camera and tell people what to do, and when I was 14, someone told me that it was called directing.
A photograph is the illusion of a literal description of how the camera 'saw' a piece of time and space.
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.
Along with people who pretty themselves for the camera, the unattractive and the disaffected have been assigned their beauty.
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.
I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera.
I don't know how much longer I can go on without my becoming known as 'the camera woman.'
Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations.
I'm quite uncomfortable in front of the still camera. I find it very constrictive, all that posing around.
If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.
If the person or artist doesn't touch it, and if the camera stays relatively far away from it, it doesn't really have to be real.
When I first had a video camera to document a performance, it was in Sweden and I remember it was really crucial for me.
Maybe law enforcement would like the ability to turn on the camera on your Mac.
I feel like an artist often turns the camera on themselves and on their own families to understand who they are.
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.
[Betty in Two Evil Eyes]was my very first on-camera role. With Harvey Keitel.
I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
I know every actor says this, but the people behind the camera are great. They always have answers.
If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.
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 grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.
Even if one is not a great actor, just being in front of the camera requires a lot of effort.
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.
Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box.
Here’s the thing, making out with a girl on camera … They’re beautiful and soft. I get why you guys are into it.
I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.
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.
You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling.
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.
I thought behind the camera roles would suit me better because I'm sensitive.
Nobody wants people following them around 24 hours a day with a camera.
I'm not getting involved in sports anymore, except on film. I'm not agile unless a camera's going.
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 grew up around horses, but acting and riding on camera is a whole different thing.
I was paying attention to where Steven Soderbergh had the camera and his shots. I was blown away.
I have always loved taking pictures. When I was young, I would carry a small camera with me on the sets.
I hate watching myself on camera. I guess a lot of people feel that way, though.
'Heyy Babyy' needed fast cutting and eye contact. It didn't need fancy camera angles.
To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name.
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.
I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.
I never expected a camera was going to follow all of my moves, and that was surprising when I saw it for the first time.
Before I became an actor, I was a visual artist, and I've always hankered for the storytelling behind the camera.
I loved Bob Hope and the way he would turn to the camera and break the fourth wall.
It took me a while to feel comfortable in front of the camera and so I just needed to do it a lot.
I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express.
But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.
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 don't have stage or camera fright but there is a little anxiety while performing in-front of a lot of people.
I've learned survival secrets from being on camera, and then translated them into everyday life.
Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.
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.
Having a camera is a really easy and quick way to indulge in your creative side.
I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.
It was always my dream to be a New York theater actor. I never thought I was pretty enough to be on camera.
Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.
Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.
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