“So the thing that's beautiful about the Rolleiflex is that I open the camera up from the top and put my face in and that the camera's all about composition and all about light.” LightBeautifulFacesCamerasComposition Author:Matthew Modine
“The difference between a regular camera and a 3D camera, for an actor, is really no different except that the turn-arounds are longer. It takes a lot longer to set up a shot because the cinematographer is really trying to set up a whole world, so it can't be more intricate and more beautiful to the viewers, in 3D.” WorldTryingDifferentWholeBeautifulTurnsActorsDifferencesShotsCamerasWhole WorldViewersIntricateCinematographers Author:Chris Zylka
“Memory works like the collection glass in the Camera obscura: it gathers everything together and therewith produces a far more beautiful picture than was present originally.” TogetherBeautifulMemoriesProduceCamerasGlassesCollectionsBeautiful PictureCamera Obscura Author:Arthur Schopenhauer
“I loved being on the other side of the camera. I loved watching another actress in the spotlight, do an extraordinary job, and I loved making her beautiful and interesting, protecting her emotions, and showing people her talent.” PeopleJobsBeautifulSidesInterestingEmotionTalentCamerasExtraordinaryActressesSpotlightProtecting Her Author:Angelina Jolie
“There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.” IfsThinkingHeartKindHappensBeautifulSecretImagineFrontsMovementStrangeBeatsCamerasLayersHeart BeatSuspensionHeart Beating Author:Juliette Binoche
“You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.” ThinkingKnowsDoeStoriesLightBeautifulFilmKnow HowMarkCamerasRhythmRememberedOur TimeMakersBeautiful Images Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“She [Marilyn Monroe] wasn't the most incredibly beautiful. She's rather ordinary. Cute, but no Rita Hayworth. I think she was ready for the camera, and it was a real destiny for her.” ThinkingRealBeautifulDestinyReadyOrdinaryCamerasCute Author:Gail Levin
“My aesthetic is derived from my point of view which is one of optimism and hope. The camera became a conduit for my need to create a more beautiful world around me.” WorldNeedsBeautifulViewsOptimismCamerasPoint Of ViewAestheticBeautiful WorldOptimism And Hope Author:Mike Ruiz
“It is boring to haunt a writer, and even more so to haunt a celebrity. I would haunt a literary figure! Possibly some superhero, maybe even James Bond. Constant adventures, fights, beautiful women--much more interesting that watching a writer who taps on computer all day long, or a celebrity posing in front of cameras.” LongBeautifulFightingInterestingFrontsFiguresAdventureComputerCamerasConstantBoringSuperheroBeautiful WomenPosing Author:Sergei Lukyanenko
“Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.” KnowsBeautifulKnowingCamerasPhotographerSaltBeautiful Things Author:Ansel Adams
“That's one of those questions where somebody says "would you like to see more women behind the camera?" And then it becomes I must have interrupted the interview to make a platform stance. But, no, I do believe it. In Australia, per capita, we've got a slightly more balanced and healthier statistic than here. I've only just started working more regularly with female ADs and its just a beautiful, different energy on set.” BelieveDifferentBeautifulEnergyBehindsFemaleCamerasInterviewsAustraliaAdsBalancedPlatformsInterruptedStance Author:Geoffrey Rush
“It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.” TryingBeautifulMovingArtistStudyElementsCamerasGreenGlassesMoving OnSquaresInchesVividMoved OnMaineFerns Author:John Sexton
“If you are a fan, you have two choices. Go to the stadium, where you see the whole beauty of it. Or stay at home, watch the beautiful moves on the slo-mo cameras. Don't go to the cinema, because you won't see it there.” IfsTwoWholeHomeBeautifulMovingChoicesWatchesFansCamerasCinemaStadiumsStay At HomeTwo Choices Author:Carlos Cuaron
“My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.” PersonsRealWholeBeautifulBlackWhiteSpecialMomSceneMy FriendsCamerasPhotographerMy MomErasPunkBlack And WhitePortraitsManualsBaltimoreCanonSpecial Times Author:Jeff Vespa
“Leica are known for their still camera lenses and in the last year and a half have come out with a series of film lenses and they are brilliant. The best thing about them, apart from their quality, which is uniform, is that each one is the same size, pretty much the same weight... So in terms of fitting into the rig, everything is almost purpose built for that and the quality is beautiful, really beautiful.” YearsStillsLastsBeautifulFilmPurposeTermHalfQualityKnownBuiltWeightCamerasSeriesSizeBrilliantBest ThingsLast YearUniformsLensesFittingReally BeautifulRigsCamera LensesLeica Author:Michael Seresin
“I shoot with a few different camera's. A Sony A6000 with several lenses and a Lumix LX100 with a beautiful Leica lens. I like to travel light so I can have it with me most of the time. I really try and document all the places we travel to.” TryingI CanDifferentLightBeautifulCamerasDocumentsLensesSonyTravel LightLeica Author:Eliot Lewis
“It was so ridiculous. We were just sitting there, thinking about how ridiculous it was because we literally had stray hairs on us. The camera couldn't pick up all the details, but we had some crazy things. We had huge slabs of fat on us and bits of nails and hair. It was disgusting. But, there's also the beautiful parts of it.” ThinkingBeautifulBitsCrazyHugeHairPicksSittingCamerasDetailsRidiculousFatsDisgustingNailsCrazy ThingsSlabs Author:Steven Yeun
“I don't think it's necessary to worry too much about being authentic. I think a picture taken on an iPhone and then filtered through something to make it look like it was taken on a Super 8 camera can be just as authentic as something taken on a Super 8 camera, if it's capturing something real or beautiful.” IfsThinkingLooksRealBeautifulWorryTakenToo MuchCamerasIphoneSomething RealPicture TakenBeing Authentic Author:Andrew VanWyngarden
“The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.” BigsBeautifulSceneMurderCamerasPhotographAffairHotel Author:Weegee
“To all the secret writers, late-night painters, would-be singers, lapsed and scared artists of every stripe, dig out your paintbrush, or your flute, or your dancing shoes. Pull out your camera or your computer or your pottery wheel. Today, tonight, after the kids are in bed or when your homework is done, or instead of one more video game or magazine, create something, anything. Pick up a needle and thread, and stitch together something particular and honest and beautiful, because we need it. I need it. Thank you, and keep going.” NeedsDoneWould BeKidsTodayTogetherBeautifulArtistNightGamesSecretHonestParticularBedComputerLatePicksCamerasDancingShoesScaredSingersVideoPainterMagazinesWheelsTonightKeep GoingThreadNeedlesHomeworkStripesFlutesLate NightPotteryStitchesPaintbrushNeedle And Thread Author:Shauna Niequist
“I have this awareness that the more dynamic the situation is, the more on guard I need to be that the dynamic isn't controlling the situation. I found that myself in the Galapagos. For the first time in my life I was around very exotic animals, colorful, beautiful, and immediately present, all around. Birds, turtles, iguanas, seals. I was being seduced by their exoticism, I was taking pictures.The pictures weren't well lit, there was no moment in play, there was no depth to the pictures. I was just gawking with my camera at something I'd never seen before.” NeedsFirstsWellsPlayMomentsBeautifulFoundAnimalSituationAwarenessBirdFirst TimeCamerasDepthLitExoticSealsColorfulTurtlesTaking PicturesIguanasExotic Animals Author:Sam Abell
“This is a movie version of the play [All the Way]and when Bryan [Cranston] was on stage the bigness of the man was played to the back of the house. When we turned the cameras on that, it changed a bit with close-ups, but we got just as much power in that beautiful intimacy.” MenWayPlayBeautifulHouseBitsStageChangedHe ManCamerasVersionsIntimacyBryan Author:Jay Roach
“I have the insecurities of any actress, I suppose of any woman. Even the most beautiful ones feel unhappy. Look at Bardot: she was suicidal. But I like to play with the camera. I like to ham it up.” FeelsLooksPlayBeautifulCamerasActressesUnhappyInsecuritySuicidalChloeHam Author:Chloe Sevigny
“So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful.” WorldHas BeensBeautifulRolesSuccessfulPhotographyStandardsCamerasPhotograph Book:On photography Source: On photography
“I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.” BeautifulCamerasLandscapeI've LearnedTemptedWhipsBeautiful Landscapes Author:David Byrne
“It's like he would take a photograph of Sam, and the photograph would be beautiful. And he would think that the reason the photograph was beautiful was because of how he took it. If I took it, I would know that the only reason it's beautiful is because of Sam. I just think it's bad when a boy looks at a girl and thinks that the way he sees the girl is better then the girl actually is. And I think it's bad when the most honest way a boy can look at a girl is through a camera. It's very hard for me to see Sam feel better about herself just because a boy sees her that way.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayFeelsLooksHardReasonWould BeBeautifulGirlBoysHonestCamerasPhotographFeel Better Book:The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition Source: The Perks of Being a Wallflower YA edition
“For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!” WorldBeautifulGreaterFrontsListeningCamerasActressesJust BeingBeautiful Music Author:Isabelle Huppert
“Here’s the thing, making out with a girl on camera … They’re beautiful and soft. I get why you guys are into it.” BeautifulGuyGirlCameras Author:Laura Prepon
“I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'” PeopleWantYearsHas BeensHardBeautifulFacesFightingActorsWinningStarsRealizingForgetBoysCuttingMinutesFrontsDirectorsCamerasMiserableInstantBeautiful FaceI Will WinPretty Boy Author:Alain Delon
“The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.” PeopleLittlesArtBeautifulFilmFormGirlFatherForeverOne DayCamerasFatsDestroyedOhioProfessionalismGreat HopeFat Girl Author:Francis Ford Coppola