Cameras Quotes - Page 34

• The trick to being a good actor is getting so involved in your character that the camera disappears, the 50 bored guys eating doughnuts disappear, friends disappear. To get to that point when you don't have to think about it, you're just acting and reacting in those circumstances.

  Val Kilmer

  Character, Thinking, Bored

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

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• Fellini was more in love with breasts than Russ Meyer, more wracked with guilt than Ingmar Bergman, more of a flamboyant showman than Busby Berkeley... Amarcord seems almost to flow from the camera, as anecdotes will flow from one who has told them often and knows they work. This was the last of his films made for no better reason than Fellini wanted to make it.

  Roger Ebert

  Guilt, Anecdotes, Lasts

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• I hate cameras. They interfere, they’re always in the way. I wish: if I could just work with my eyes alone. To get a satisfactory print, one that contains all that you intended, is very often more difficult and dangerous than the sitting itself. When I’m photographing, I immediately know when I’ve got the image I really want. But to get the image out of the camera and into the open, is another matter.

  Richard Avedon

  Hate, Eye, Wish

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• I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness. And it's that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focused attention that I'm interested in.

  Stephen Shore

  Photography, Mean, Everyday

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• The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

  Gordon Parks

  Powerful, Racism, Poverty

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• The camera is an extension of yourself... Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.

  Cornell Capa

  Important, Stories, May

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• You have to be able to observe life as if you were a camera all the time, constantly looking at light and the way that things are placed and the way people hold themselves. You need the ability to see something in someone or something that no one else really sees and be able to bring that to light. Basically, you have to be an obsessive crazy person.

  Ryan McGinley

  Crazy, Light, People

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• Do not be afraid of mistakes. They will be with you always,every time you put a camera to your eye. [If you] shoot safe, and don't at least occasionally court disaster, you are not trying. Time to hang up the camera.

  Joe McNally

  Mistake, Eye, Trying

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• At our best and most fortunate we make pictures because of what stands before our camera, to honor what is greater and more interesting than we are. We never accomplish this perfectly, though in return we are given something perfect--a sense of inclusion. Our subject thus redefines us, and is part of the biography by which we want to be known.

  Robert Adams

  Perfect, Interesting, Honor

  Robert Adams (1994). “Why People Photograph: Selected Essays and Reviews”

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• I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.

  Chuck Close

  Photography, Way, Said

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• I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves.

  Gordon Parks

  Photography, Children, Thinking

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• You don't make a photograph just with a camera

  Ansel Adams

  Photography, Photographer, Photograph

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• I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone.

  Ray Lewis

  Effort, Shooting, Outcomes

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• I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately.

  Demetri Martin

  Reminiscing, Digital, Digital Cameras

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• We don't take photographs with our cameras, we take them with our hearts and our minds. They are a reflection of ourselves...wha t we are and what we think.

  Arnold Newman

  Heart, Reflection, Thinking

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• In the year and a half I was on SNL, I never saw anybody ad lib anything. For a very good reason - the director cut according to the script. So, if you ad libbed, you'd be off mike and off camera.

  Harry Shearer

  Cutting, Years, Directors

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• I never had a “project.” I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see.

  Helen Levitt

  Eye, Projects, Capture

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• After many months of writing, it occured to me that it might be possible to photograph, in the flesh, what I was attempting to capture in words. I bought a Rolleiflex camera and began to take pictures of objects or structures that were used and abused by human hands

  Wright Morris

  Writing, Used And Abused, Hands

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• Cameras are simple tools designed to capture images. Images that tell us more about ourselves than we realize. They remind us of the long journey we’ve taken. The loved ones who traveled alongside of us. Those we lost along the way. And those waiting for us on the road ahead.

  Mary Alice

  Taken, Simple, Journey

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• You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery. You can show things that you like about the universe, things that you hate about the universe. It's capable of doing both.

  Gordon Parks

  Hate, Misery, Shows

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• The best camera, is the one that you have with you!

  Chase Jarvis

  Photography, Entrepreneur, Directors

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• My camera, my intentions stopped no man from falling. Nor did they aid him after he had fallen. It could be said that photographs be damned for they bind no wounds. Yet, I reasoned, if my photographs could cause compassionate horror within the viewer, they might also prod the conscience of that viewer into taking action.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Fall, Men, Might

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• Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.

  Ernest Borgnine

  Mind, Steps, Young

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• Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling.

  Drake

  Rolling, Rehearsal

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• I don't need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

  Charlie Chaplin

  Interesting, Needs, Camera Angles

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