“My background is a small town with no movie theater. So... I always pictured myself onstage. I went to acting school and learned all the skills. I left early because I did my first movie and discovered that I really loved the minimalistic work with the camera.” FirstsSchoolLeftActingSkillsTheaterTownsCamerasBackgroundsSmall TownMovie Theater Author:Franka Potente
“My background is in painting but in school in the sixties, like many artists of that time, I believed that painting was dead. I began to work in collaboration with other artists in the creation of performances and installation works. Soon after, I started making video and photographic works and in the process became fascinated with the media itself. Before long I was setting things up just for the camera. In l970 I got a dog and he turned out to be very interested in video and photography as well.” WellsLongSchoolArtistProcessMediaDogCreationPaintingPhotographyPerformancesCamerasBackgroundsSettingVideoSettingsCollaborationFascinatedSixtyInstallation Author:William Wegman
“In the the late seventies and early eighties, I played background roles in thirty movies... Woody Allen movies, Scorsese films, you name it. Whatever was being shot in New York, I was doing stand-in and background work because I wanted to be close to the camera; I wanted to see what was going on.” WantedFilmNamesRolesNew YorkLateShotsCamerasBackgroundsThirtySeventiesEightyWoodyScorseseWoody Allen Movie Author:Tobin Bell
“My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.” FeelsYearsStoriesMy FriendsCamerasBackgroundsVideoFilmmakingGoing OutFamily And FriendsVideo Cameras Author:Rian Johnson
“I come from a visual background. I used to work in the camera department at Warner Bros. when I was a teenager. I grew up dusting lenses and learning about photography.” UsedGrewPhotographyGrew UpCamerasBackgroundsTeenagerVisualsDepartmentLensesBrosWarner Bros Author:Colin Hanks
“Cameras are dangerous. With no waiting period or background check, any whack-job could just stroll into a Wal-Mart and walk out with a semi-automatic. Now, for years I've been pressing for stricter regulations on cameras, especially around our elected officials. Too many political lives have been cut short by some crazed shooter.” YearsHas BeensJobsPoliticalWaitingWalksCuttingDangerousPeriodsCamerasBackgroundsChecksOfficialsRegulationPolitical LifeElected OfficialsShooterBackground Checks Author:Stephen Colbert
“I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be.” WantNeedsI CanLanguageMy OwnSecurityKeysComputerBuiltCamerasStudiosBackgroundsTranslateSessionTechnicians Author:Edward Snowden
“I grew up in music theater playing to the audience - singing and dancing and showing off. That's really my background. But the camera's different. I think I'm more at home on stage.” ThinkingDifferentHomeAudienceStageGrewGrew UpSingingTheaterCamerasDancingBackgroundsShowing OffSinging And Dancing Author:Christopher Walken
“I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance.” WorldGivingLightMovingStuffTermActingCrossesPerformancesCamerasPhotographerBackgroundsLensesFiltersMoving InForeground Author:Keanu Reeves
“The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.” LittlesRealityStudyComedyGroupsMastersSceneDegreesPerceptionIntelligentCamerasMajorityBackgroundsMediumsIntimateBroadsTruthfulFormatBanterComedicArchesVernacularPerception RealityMasters Degree Author:Matt LeBlanc