Cameras Quotes - Page 40

• To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.

  Murray Kempton

  Gentleman, Oneself, And Off

  Murray Kempton (1972). “America comes of middle age: columns, 1950-1962”

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• Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.

  David Chase

  People, Television, Prisoner

  "TELEVISION; The Real Boss Of 'The Sopranos'". Interview with Virginia Heffernan, www.nytimes.com. February 29, 2004.

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• I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.

  David Chase

  Firsts, Tvs, Film

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• The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens.

  Gu Cheng

  Art, Feelings, Lenses

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• Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

  Julian Fellowes

  Eight, Actors, Ninety

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• I still enjoy acting. I love the moment in front of the camera, but it's all the other moments that I don't enjoy. The 'business' aspect of it, the gossip.

  Jennie Garth

  Gossip, Acting, Moments

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• I'm quite comfortable looking at myself in movies, probably because I've been doing it for so long, since I was a kid. So I sort of watched myself grow up and go through adolescence, like, basically on camera.

  Winona Ryder

  Growing Up, Kids, Long

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• I like that 3D is based on the fact that you look with two eyes, so two cameras imitate that.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Eye, Two, Looks

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• I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great for the story I want to do, in a realistic, normal story, using 3D on the emotions in a kind of intimate story.

  Bernardo Bertolucci

  Thinking, Ideas, Would Be

  "Legendary Oscar-Winner Bernardo Bertolucci’s Career Celebrated at MoMA". Interview with Brad Balfour, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 2, 2011.

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• I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest.

  Jonathan Taylor Thomas

  Thinking, Honest, Behinds

  "Tim Allen & Jonathan Taylor Thomas Reunite for 'Last Man Standing'", toofab.com. March 11, 2013.

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• I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.

  Bryan Adams

  Thinking, Behinds, Fronts

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• Imagination helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font of the camera, or in front of an audience. I used to think you had to disappear within a character, but I find that puts a mask on what I do.

  Kim Cattrall

  Character, Journey, Thinking

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• The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.

  Matthew Perry

  Goal, Laughing, Guy

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• I made the intentional choice to step behind the camera.

  Kathy Ireland

  Choices, Steps, Made

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• I love Polaroids and I have a Polaroid camera collection from the '50s.

  Jennifer Jason Leigh

  Polaroids, Collections

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• Cooking for me is a way to wind down. It's different from cooking on camera, where you have to do everything twice, for a wide shot and a close-up.

  Giada De Laurentiis

  Wind, Cooking, Different

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• I can't hold a camera anymore.

  Eve Arnold

  I Can

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• It doesn't matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

  Eve Arnold

  Important, Use, Leica

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• Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.

  Eve Arnold

  Numbers, Attention, Lessons

  Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

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• I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

  Eve Arnold

  Reality, Ideas, Film

  Eve Arnold (1995). “Eve Arnold: in retrospect”, Random House (UK)

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• Because I trained in theater, I always leave a film shoot feeling like I haven't done anything, like I just sat in front of the camera and whispered, essentially.

  Hayley Atwell

  Feelings, Done, Film

  "Hayley Atwell Is a Woman We Love" by Peter Martin, www.esquire.com. July 19, 2011.

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• I did come to L.A. to try to get on TV and get in front of a camera, so I could have a stage career in New York.

  Jon Bernthal

  New York, Careers, Trying

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

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• I almost became a music major, but somehow I was so enthralled with the camera and becoming a director that I stuck with film school and theatrics.

  James Brolin

  School, Directors, Becoming

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• I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

  James Brolin

  Dream, Directors, Firsts

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• Gen Y is really quite distinct from Gen X; it's really self-involved and very narcissistic - their cameras are filled with pictures of themselves; Facebook, it's about me. It's a generation that's been pampered by their parents and their schools, given prizes for just taking part.

  Marcus Buckingham

  School, Self, Parent

  "The Monday Interview: Marcus Buckingham, Author of The Truth About You". Interview with Dick Donahue, www.publishersweekly.com. September 15, 2008.

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