Cameras Quotes - Page 8

• It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

  Vida Blue

  Baseball, Winning, Men

  Vida Blue, Bill Libby (1972). “Vida: His Own Story”, Prentice Hall

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• Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.

  Yousuf Karsh

  Inspirational, Photography, Heart

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• Photograph: a picture painted by the sun without instruction in art.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Inspirational, Photography, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.223, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Metal Fans, Weight

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• A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

  Orson Welles

  Movie, Eye, Film Directing

  1958 'Un ruban de reves' in L'Express, 5 Jun. Reprinted in English in International Film Annual, no.2.

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• The whole point of taking pictures is so that you don't have to explain things with words.

  Elliott Erwitt

  Inspirational, Photography, Photographer

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• My portraits are more about me than they are about the people I photograph.

  Richard Avedon

  Photography, People, Portraits

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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  Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.

  Stanley Kubrick

  Sound, Ridiculous, Kind

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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  One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind.

  Dorothea Lange

  Photography, Reality, Use

  Anne Whiston Spirn, Dorothea Lange (2009). “Daring to Look: Dorothea Lange's Photographs and Reports from the Field”, University Of Chicago Press

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• I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.

  Lady Gaga

  Girl, Excited, Polaroids

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• If the photographer is interested in the people in front of his lens, and if he is compassionate, it's already a lot. The instrument is not the camera but the photographer.

  Eve Arnold

  Inspirational, Photography, People

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• I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.

  Alan Rickman

  Feels, Audience

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• They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.

  Cesar Romero

  Lying, Never Lie

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• When I’m behind a camera I forget I exist.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Forget, Behinds

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

  Harold Evans

  Photography, Lying, Accessories

  Harold Evans (1978). “Editing and Design: Pictures on a page”

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• I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

  Taylor Hackford

  Moving, Looks, Stories

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.

  Ann Beattie

  Photography, Teaching, Class

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• Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.

  Elisabeth Rohm

  Thinking, Decision, Film

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• If this validates anything, it's that learning how to bunt and hit-and-run and turning two is more important than knowing where to find the little red light on the dugout camera.

  Ryne Sandberg

  Sports, Running, Learning

  "Coleman's short 'n' sweet speech rings true" by Tim Sullivan, legacy.sandiegouniontribune.com. August 1, 2005.

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• At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.

  Darren Aronofsky

  Film, Hunger, Ends

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• My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

  Adam Baldwin

  Hero, Long, Firefighter

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• I was instructed by people in higher rank to stand there and hold this leash and look at the camera. We were doing what we were told.

  Lynndie England

  People, Looks, Higher

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• Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.

  Pauline Kael

  Hair, Should Have, Play

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• I feel more comfortable in front of a camera than anywhere else.

  Donna Mills

  Feels, Fronts, Comfortable

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• Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Light, Years

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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