“In the theater, you're so much more in charge as an actor. For better or for worse, you know what the audience is seeing. But you can be acting your socks off on film, and then you see the movie, and the camera is on the other actor, or they've cut out the lines you thought were significant, or they've adjusted the plot. So much of it is out of your control.” KnowsFilmActorsLinesActingAudienceCuttingSeeingTheaterCamerasSignificantPlotSock Author:Susan Sarandon
“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensUseAgeMotherSpeakLanguageBornTechnologyCuttingRevolutionInternetAdultsOkayTwentiesCamerasEdgesTongueThirtyExpertsDigitalMailAssistantsSurfLaptopsForeign LanguageCutting EdgeMother TongueDigital TechnologyPowerpointDigital Revolution Author:Ken Robinson
“I've made quite a number of movies like Castaway and a few others where I'm the only guy in the movie and the only place to be is right next to the camera in costume ready to go in order to get it. The years, and more specifically probably the four months prior to beginning shooting, is where the big preparation is that the director does because I knew we were going to get on the set. And the good news is, if you're the boss, if it ain't good, you don't use it. You just cut it out.” IfsYearsDoeMadeUseBigsGuyOrderNextNumbersFourCuttingReadyMonthsDirectorsNewsCamerasPreparationShootingBossCostumesGood NewsCastaway Author:Tom Hanks
“And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the same form. I find that appealing.” IfsArtFormAudienceCuttingPerformancesCamerasVideoPerformingOne TimePrintedPerforming ArtsVideo Cameras Author:James Arthur
“In silent movies, they tended to put the camera down, and everybody walked in front of it and acted, and then they all walked off. Cutting was quite infrequent.” CuttingFrontsDown AndCamerasSilentSilent Movies Author:Bruce Beresford
“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.” YearsLittlesMotherCuttingTypeComputerStandardsPicksMy FriendsCamerasMagazinesShootingPrintPunkLensesMockParagraphManualsCanonSkateboardingMacintoshLayoutFontsXeroxZines Author:Jeff Vespa
“With mockumentaries, the conceit is that the characters are being interviewed, so you can start a scene and cut to a character looking at the camera and saying, "I'm working on this project," instead of having to figure out ways for people to talk naturally about what they're doing. You see this problem in pilots - people end up explaining things to each other that they'd never explain in real life.” PeopleWayRealEndsCharacterProblemCuttingFiguresSceneProjectsCamerasReal LifePilotsExplainingConceitDoing YouExplaining Things Author:Michael Schur
“There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.” IfsWould BeAgeStuffCuttingEffectsRocksCamerasSmooth Author:Adam Shankman
“In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this, I don't know how you're gonna do it.' And then, all of a sudden, there's a crane with a camera hanging over our heads, and you're, like, 'Okayyyyyyy. But how are you gonna sell this? How are you gonna make it work?' And they ended up shooting it brilliantly, cutting it together, and it just all ended up working without me having to compromise my own personal morals.” KnowsFirstsTogetherMy OwnMoralKnow HowCuttingSeasonsCamerasSellsCompromiseShootingNipplesCranesThreesome Author:Pamela Adlon
“But when there were certain moments or scenes that required a very specific nuance or performance, I myself would act out the scene or the sequence and that would inspire the actors. Of course, I can't really express emotions on camera, but I was very active in showing a certain action or a blocking for an actor. I would also participate in certain stunts myself and because of that, I would get bruises or cuts on my knees and elbows.” I CanMomentsActionCertainCoursesActorsEmotionCuttingInspireScenePerformancesCamerasActiveBlockKneesSequenceNuanceElbowsBruises Author:Kim Jee-woon
“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
“Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.” WantHandsActionUsedRaceCuttingModernMovementCamerasTechniqueAction MovieZoomDeath Race Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“You really feel like you're on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn't exist for 3-D. So all the cranes with all the stabilized heads, they don't work on 3-D because they're all built for lightweight camera packages. As soon as you kind of put two cameras together and all the other crap that they need and the cabling to go back to the computers, we've literally, the cranes on these movies, they break after a couple of days.” KnowsNeedsFeelsKindTwoTogetherBreakCuttingLike YouCoupleComputerBuiltCamerasEdgesGrantedCrapEquipmentPackagesCutting EdgeCranes Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I always try to create equal power between the subject and the object, so as not to end up creating a relationship where the camera is here and the object out there. This is for me a very difficult and sensitive balance. When I produce a work, cut and frame images, I realize that spectators can identify with the images and almost forget that someone else actually made them. This would be the optimal situation. I don't know whether I succeed in doing so, but that's what I would like to have happen.” KnowsTryingMadeEndsHappensWould BeDifficultRealizingForgetSituationCuttingSubjectsObjectsProduceBalanceSucceedEqualCreatingCamerasSensitiveSpectatorsOptimalEqual Power Author:Pipilotti Rist
“It's a product of being an actor, you know? A lot of your work doesn't end up on camera and some of the best things aren't always in the final product. But yeah, a lot of my stuff got cut and it was painful, but I know it was for the better of the movie.” KnowsEndsActorsStuffCuttingProductsCamerasYeahFinalsPainfulBest Things Author:John Leguizamo
“The film [ Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera phones. It was processed using the effects of FINAL CUT X and then edited in FINAL CUT 7.” WellsFilmCuttingEffectsHolyShotsCamerasFinalsPhonesMultipleEditedHoly GrailKodak Author:Evan Jacobs
“Of course, the whole photographic process has been made much faster, cleaner and far more accessible to people by digital innovations, which is really great. Everybody now has a camera, often as part of our phone, and most of these cameras require little to no technical training. An enormous variety of apps also enable us to take short cuts to finished images. We hardly need to even think anymore.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLittlesHas BeensMadeWholeCoursesProcessCuttingTrainingInnovationCamerasPhonesFinishedEnormousVarietyFasterDigitalReally GreatCleanersAppsShort CutsTechnical Training Author:Michael Kenna
“The learning curve on soaps is through the roof because it's a three-camera setup. There's a master and then there's two singles. And the great thing about soaps, and soap actors will tell you, is that when you get your line wrong, they don't re-shoot it. They just cut to the person listening.” PersonsTwoThreeActorsLinesCuttingMastersListeningCamerasGreat ThingsRoofCurvesSoapSinglesSetupsLearning Curve Author:John C. McGinley
“I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.” InspirationalWellsSchoolFunnyTogetherFilmCuttingEventsMy FriendsCamerasSavedVideoStaffGraduationSporting EventsVideo CamerasYearbookDarkroomNikon Author:Dianna Agron
“The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.” KnowsWorldWantFirstsMadeTwoTogetherLastsFilmTurnsRoomsKnow HowPiecesCuttingMinutesTearsMaterialsCamerasStudiosTurn Me Author:Buster Keaton
“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
“Actors make bad lovers. Their most important kiss is for the camera. Not in a superficial way, in a really deep way. They can only give everything if they know someone is going to shout cut!” IfsKnowsWayGivingImportantActorsCuttingLoversKissingCamerasSuperficialReally Deep Author:Rupert Everett