“Guys don't understand great art. They don't care that sometimes the camera has power beyond the photographer to record emotion that only the heart can see. They're threatened when the camera jumps ahead of me. Todd Kovich was pissed when I brought my Nikon to the prom, but I'd missed too many transcendent shots over the years to ever take a chance of missing one again. A prom, I told him, had a boundless supply of photogenic bozos who could be counted on to do something base.” YearsHeartArtSometimesCareGuyChanceEmotionRecordsMissingShotsCamerasPhotographerDon't CareThreatenedGreat ArtTake A ChanceBoundlessTranscendentPromPhotogenicNikon Author:Joan Bauer
“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
“The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.” TryingCharacterThreeEmotionMovementHolyCamerasFilmmakingTrifecta Author:David O. Russell
“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
“The challenge has always been to wrest emotion out of a [doll's] face that we think of as only having one emotion. It's moving a light, moving my camera; it's just this mental investment that I make, and suddenly, everything changes. Parenthetically, I have to say, I don't particularly like dolls, nor have I ever liked them. That's something I really wanted to get out there right away.” ThinkingLightWantedFacesMovingChallengesEmotionCamerasInvestmentThings ChangeDolls Author:Laurie Simmons
“What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.” MomentsMovingActorsDecisionActingEmotionStyleMovementCamerasAtmosphereThat Moment Author:Xavier Dolan
“Don't ever for a minute make the mistake of looking down your nose at westerns. They're art - the good ones, I mean. They deal in life and sudden death and primitive struggle, and with the basic emotions - love, hate, and anger - thrown in. We'll have westerns films as long as the cameras keep turning. The fascination that the Old West has will never die. And as long as people want to pay money to see me act, I'll keep on making westerns until the day I die.” PeopleWantMeanLongArtFilmHateDiesDealsPayEmotionMistakeStruggleMinutesCamerasWestNosesThrownPrimitiveFascinationLove HateLooking DownSudden DeathOld West Author:John Wayne
“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
“I've always had a feeling that the image is 50% of the emotion that an audience feels and it's subliminal. Yet, how you arrange the elements in front of a camera has an impact on people's belief about that world in some way.” PeopleWorldWayFeelsFeelingsBeliefEmotionAudienceFrontsElementsCamerasImpactSubliminal Author:Scott Hicks
“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
“Reality... includes a perceiver, who has memories, thoughts, desires, emotions - [which] a normal camera tends to omit.” RealityDesireMemoriesEmotionNormalCameras Author:Barbara Ess
“I'm a visual filmmaker so the camera is a big part of my storytelling tool and it's something that I really rely on to tell a scene or create the suspense that I need and create the emotion of a scene or a sequence.” NeedsBigsEmotionSceneToolsCamerasStorytellingSuspenseFilmmakerRelyVisualsSequence Author:James Wan
“It's strange, the lack of emotion, the absence of drama in reality. When things happen in real life, extraordinary things, there's no music, there's no dah-dah-daaahhs. There's no close-ups. No dramatic camera angles. Nothing happens. Nothing stops, the rest of the world goes on.” WorldRealRealityHappensEmotionStrangeGoes OnDramaCamerasExtraordinaryAbsenceThings HappenReal LifeDramaticAngleExtraordinary ThingsCamera Angles Book:Martyn Pig Source: Martyn Pig
“In film, the camera can get an array of shots so the audience can see the emotion the character is giving off. Using close-ups on the characters face really helps get the message across. On stage, you cant do that. But the stage has that live feeling that you cant get anywhere else because the audience is right there.” GivingCharacterHelpingFeelingsFilmFacesEmotionAudienceStageMessagesShotsCamerasCant Author:Alice Eve