Cameras Quotations | Page 9

Marilyn Monroe gave more to the still camera than any actress, any woman I've ever photographed; infinitely more patient, more demanding of herself and more comfortable in front of the camera than away from it.

The camera's a ballpoint pen, an imbecile; it's not worth anything if you don't have anything to say.

When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist

David I knock you out! - While pointing to the camera with a smirk.

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.

Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.

As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment.

Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.

When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.

The day I feel like I'm at an office job is the day I'll quit performing in front of a camera.

Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good.

The camera... on the one hand extends our comprehension of the necessities that rule our lives; on the other, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.

The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.

There are photographic fanatics, just as there are religious fanatics. They buy a so-called candid camera there is no such thing: it’s the photographer who has to be candid, not the camera.

Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty

Creation rather than painting, or if painting, yet such, and with such co-presence of the whole picture flash'd at once upon the eye, as the sun paints in a camera obscura. (Describing his poetic ideal, 1817)

I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good.

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.

When I was younger, I was reticent to be vulnerable on camera and everything I was doing was just a really finely honed defense mechanism from when I was a kid, and I was now using this to make a living on camera.

In animation, there's silly things I get to do with my voice. I get to have a wider range, so my voice gets to dance more than it does on camera.

There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and... Photoshop

I don't get a chance to be funny on camera as often as I would like.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

I love goofing around, and I love breaking people's balls. I do it off camera, as well as on camera.

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past.

We grew up with a camera in front of us.

If you think it, the camera will see it.

The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.

I quite frequently don't look through the camera, which is very close to being blind.

I don't think about what camera I should use that much. I just pick up the one that looks nicest on the day.

The true authenticity of photographs for me is that they usually manipulate and lie about what is in front of the camera, but never lie about the intentions behind the camera.

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people.

The camera is as subjective as we are.

I just feel that I enjoy the work more than I ever have... or just as much certainly. I enjoy making films behind the camera equally to making them in front of the camera on all those years. I just enjoy it, that's all. I've been lucky enough to work in a profession that I have really liked and so I figured I'd just continue until someone hits me over the head and says "get out".

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket.

I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors.

One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms.

I don't mind looking to the camera -​ it's people that throw me.

I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it.