972 Camera Quotes for You to Enjoy

It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this. Ree Drummond

Me Never Know Talk Occurred Camera Going

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do. Reed Morano

Long Everything Emotion Driven Aesthetic However Camera Whether Lens Wide

When I got on my first set, I watched what the cinematographer was doing, and at that level in film school, the cinematographer has the most control. They're the one looking through the viewfinder, carrying the camera, framing the shots. Reed Morano

School First Looking Control Cinematographer Framing Carrying Through Most Got Doing Camera Shots Film Level Film School Watched Set

I actually carried a Panavision Platinum and a G2 when I was seven months pregnant for a film called 'Little Birds,' and the whole movie was handheld. And we were shooting in the desert. That's a 35-millimeter camera. It's huge, probably at least 50, 55 pounds, and I did all my own operating. Reed Morano

So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week. Regis Philbin

Me Director First Month About My Friend Week Writers Never Had Budget Talk Talk Show Talked Got Camera Years Years Ago Friend Any Done Just Show Who Last Chance

If you think about all the light that enters - that enters the lens of a camera, that's much more than a photo. The light field is all the higher-dimensional information that's lost in a regular photo. When we record all this information, that provides us the opportunity in software after the fact. Ren Ng

Camera 1.0 was film. Camera 2.0 was digital. 3.0 is a light-field camera that opens all these new possibilities for your picture taking. Ren Ng

Digital Picture Possibilities Taking New Opens Camera New Possibilities Your Film

Basically, with a regular camera, you have to take time or allow the camera to focus before you take the shot. Ren Ng

Time You Focus Before Take Allow Camera Shot Regular Basically

I don't remember the first picture I took, but I actually found a picture of myself on a trip back to my old family home in Malaysia. I'm five years old, sitting on the floor with the family camera in my hand. It was a film camera - not a DSLR - with a fixed lens and a nice manual zoom. Ren Ng

Myself Home Family Remember Old First Picture Nice Took Back Trip Malaysia Camera Years Hand Five Fixed Sitting Lens Manual Film Found Floor Actually

I came out of a culture when there wasn't tweeting and everyone with a camera in their hands. I didn't grow up with it, so I'm not always thinking about it, but there have been times when I looked over, and I saw that someone was recording my conversation. Rene Russo

I might have been one of the first 'SportsCenter' anchors that complained that I wrote this great lead-in setting up a highlight, and that as I'm doing it, on camera, the final score is scrolling underneath my head. Rich Eisen

Great First Setting Final Anchors Head Highlight Wrote Underneath Doing Camera Been Score Up Might

Anytime you're on camera, 95 percent of whatever character you're playing, unless you're Daniel Day-Lewis - or maybe, no, pretty much just him - you're cast because you're you. Rich Sommer

Character You Whatever Unless Daniel Pretty Percent Cast Him Because Camera Maybe Just Anytime Much Playing

Camera lies all the time. It's all it does is lie, because when you choose this moment instead of this moment, when you... the moment you've made a choice, you're lying about something larger. 'Lying' is an ugly word. I don't mean lying. But any artist picks and chooses what they want to paint or write about or say. Photographers are the same. Richard Avedon

Time You Lie Ugly Word Made Lying Say Photographers Lies About Something Write Instead Picks Because Does Camera Same Any Artist Want Mean Choice Choose Chooses Moment Paint Larger

Click! In other words, I'm in a very controlling position, and I can bring... and I've already... if the camera's on you, your face is very concentrated. You're listening. You don't know what I'm going to say next, and now you're smiling. All these things are the things I work with. Richard Avedon

No question that 'Birdman' is a breathtaking technical achievement, not a stunt. Shot in 30 days after a long rehearsal period, with the actors' and the camera's movements calibrated to the inch and the millisecond so the action flows smoothly, the picture has the jagged energy of a long guerrilla raid choreographed by Bob Fosse. Richard Corliss

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A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star. Richard D. Zanuck

You Quality Matter Become Kind Athletes Able Good-Looking Perform Performer How Still Camera Lot Front Just Convincing Star Presence

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

Rules Pictures Motion Motion Pictures Camera Actor Served

Rehearsal for film is tough. Until the camera's there, everything changes. Richard Jenkins

Tough Changes Everything Everything Changes Until Camera Rehearsal Film

I think it's good for an actor to bounce between stuff on camera and stuff in theatre. If I could do half and half every year I would be a very, very happy man. Richard Madden

Good Man Happy Theatre Half Year Every Think Would Would-Be Could Bounce Between Stuff Camera Very Happy Man If I Could Actor

There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy. Richard Phillips

Energy Something Magnetic Steps She Occupies Does Lindsay Lindsay Lohan Camera Front Anybody Happens Lens Really Who Extent

My mom had a huge video camera that I would always play with, and there is home video of me, like, with the camera letting her know, 'I want to do stuff like this when I grow up.' Rick Gonzalez

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