“It's a very long and difficult schedule on a single-camera show.” LongShowsDifficultCamerasSchedules Author:Martha Plimpton
“You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.” KnowsDifficultLaughingCamerasHardestThings To DoHardest ThingHardest Thing To Do Author:Vera Farmiga
“How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.” DifficultEffectsCameras Author:David Hockney
“Photography is a medium of formidable contradictions. It is both ridiculously easy and almost impossibly difficult. It is easy because its technical rudiments can readily be mastered by anyonwith a few simple instructions. It is difficult because, while while the artist working in any other medium begins with a blank surface and gradually brings his conception into being, the photographer is the only imagemaker who begins with the picture completed. His emotions, his knowledge, and his native talent are brought into focus and fixed beyond recall the moment the shutter of his camera has closed.” MomentsArtistEasyDifficultSimpleEmotionFocusTalentPhotographyCamerasPhotographerSurfaceMediumsFixedNativeContradictionConceptionInstructionRecallsBlankFormidableShutters Author:Edward Steichen
“For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.” PeopleShouldRunningAsksDifficultPressureCamerasClockStaringRollingUnnaturalUnder PressureImprovisingStaring At You Author:Albert Brooks
“I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the whole thing in my head or on scattered notes and sketches that only I need to understand. So I can very radically and quickly change things as I go without tripping anybody else up. And the camera allows me to experiment and try new things on the fly.” PeopleNeedsTryingI CanWholeAbleDifficultCreativeCamerasNotesCommunicateExperimentsLuxuryNew ThingsTripping Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself.” PeopleBodyActionFacesMovingDifficultInterestingTalkingCamerasTiredPhotographerYour BodyNervousBeing YourselfRelax Author:Keira Knightley
“I feel cool about making music and I feel secure pushing boundaries in my music. But things like videos and photos I find really difficult. I don't really like being in front of a camera - even though it is my job and I must act like I do.” FeelsJobsDifficultFrontsCamerasBoundariesVideoSecurePushingPushing Boundaries Author:Erika M. Anderson
“I knew if I continued to look around it would be difficult for me to contain my own emotions. So I turned away from the red eyes of the crowd and looked only at the red eye of the camera, talking to all the nation.” IfsLooksWould BeEyeNationsDifficultMy OwnEmotionTalkingRedCamerasCrowdsRed Eye Author:Richard M. Nixon
“Photography came as a substitute. I was painfully shy and found talking to people difficult; a camera in hand gave me a function, a reason to be somewhere, a witness, but not an actor.” PeopleReasonHandsActorsFoundDifficultTalkingPhotographyFunctionCamerasWitnessShySubstitutes Author:Martine Franck
“I think [indications of vulnerability are] why so many portraits work when they're difficult: we believe we're presenting ourselves one way, but the camera always reveals something more vulnerable, despite our best efforts.” ThinkingWayBelieveDifficultEffortCamerasDespiteVulnerableOne WayVulnerabilityPortraitsIndicationPresentingBest Effort Author:Katy Grannan
“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
“I taught myself to use a camera - it's not very difficult to use a camera, but I never bothered looking at any textbooks on how to make a picture. I had a much more casual relation to it. For me at the time it was much more about the process rather than the results.” UseProcessDifficultResultsTaughtRelationCamerasCasualBotheredTextbooks Author:Gillian Wearing
“I don't believe any sort of traveler does a better job than any other sort of traveler at obeying traffic safety laws. It's difficult to foresee a camera program that can be used with bikers and walkers.” BelieveDoeJobsLawUsedDifficultProgramCamerasSafetyDon't BelieveTrafficTravelerObeyingBetter JobsWalkersBikers Author:Robert James Thomson
“Anamorphic is very difficult because the distance from the lens to the person to focus is very long so you need a lot of distance from the camera to the person so that means that you need a lot of space.” NeedsMeanPersonsLongDifficultSpaceFocusCamerasDistanceLenses Author:Jaume Collet-Serra
“I find it very difficult to do anything on my own now because people recognize me. This has never happened to me before because I haven't really done television before. But I suppose if you're in people's rooms all the time, I don't know - I was thinking the other night with people like DiCaprio and, you know, those big stars and Cate Blanchett, and you just think how did they exist? It's so difficult. And I think now it's very intrusive because of these cellphones, you know, with cameras.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsDoneBigsNightStarsDifficultMy OwnRoomsHappenedHavensTelevisionCamerasCellphone Author:Maggie Smith
“'How the West was Won' was very hard, because it was a three cameras technique, meaning three cameras wide. Therefore I wasn't speaking to my fellow performer, I was speaking to a camera, or a line next to the camera. It was difficult to do, because its not real acting. I had to pretend that I was 'seeing' Agnes Moorhead or Jimmy Stewart or Carroll Baker. I wasn't, I was acting to a drawn line. It took me personally two years to make the film, because my character starts at age 16 and I end up being 92 years old in the film. By the end of that production, I was ready for a long nap.” YearsLongTwoRealEndsHardCharacterAgeFilmThreeNextDifficultLinesActingSeeingReadyCamerasFellowsWestProductionsWideTechniqueTwo YearsPerformersJimmyNapsBakersJimmy Stewart Author:Debbie Reynolds
“Everybody now has a camera, whether it is a professional instrument or just part of a phone. Landscape photography is a pastime enjoyed by more and more. Getting it right is not an issue. It is difficult to make a mistake with the sophisticated technology we now have. Making a personal and creative image is a far greater challenge.” DifficultChallengesMistakeTechnologyCreativeIssuesGreaterPhotographyCamerasInstrumentsPhonesEnjoyedLandscapeSophisticatedPastimeLandscape Photography Author:Michael Kenna
“Before each new setup, I chase everyone off the set in order to be alone and look through the camera. In that moment, the film seems quite easy. But then the others come in and everything becomes difficult.” LooksMomentsSeemsFilmOrderEasyDifficultCamerasThat MomentSetups Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“It's difficult, if not impossible, to get away with anything false before the camera. That instrument penetrates the husk of the actor; it reveals what's truly happening - if anything, if nothing. A close-up demands absolute truth. It's a severe and awesome truth” IfsInspirationalMotivationalActorsDifficultActingImpossibleDemandHappeningsAbsolutesCamerasInstrumentsGet AwaySeverePenetrateAbsolute Truth Book:Elia Kazan: A Life Source: Elia Kazan: A Life
“I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law.” YearsI CanSometimesHardStatesSeemsMovingLawMotivationTurnsDifficultInterestAbilityAnswersUnitedUnited StatesTroubleGroupsEffectsTelevisionCamerasImmigrationAgencyIllegalHostSpotlightTurn OffAdvocacyIllegal ImmigrationInterest Groups Author:Michael Chertoff
“Give half a dozen men the same camera, lenses and plates, and send them to the same place to do the same thing, and all the results will be alike, or so nearly alike as to reveal the real mechanicalness of photography. Yet, curiously enough, this is just one of the most difficult things a photographer can be set to do, to exactly repeat himself, or another. He may use the identical apparatus, know the subject perfectly, and yet be totally unable to bring away an exact replica.” KnowsMenGivingMayRealEnoughUseDifficultResultsHalfSubjectsPhotographyCamerasPhotographerRepeatsJust OneDozenPlatesLensesIdenticalDifficult ThingsReplicaCamera Lenses Author:Frederick H. Evans
“The movie business is very difficult but the music business is just impossible. So I'll play in bands and record and play songs with other people, but for me it's a form of expression that all I need is me. I don't need cameras or agents, I can just have a piano and sing and feel totally verified.” PeopleNeedsFeelsI CanPlayFormSongDifficultRecordsImpossibleExpressionBandCamerasAgentsPianoMusic BusinessMovie Business Author:Jeremy Renner