“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.” IfsImportantLightFeltSpaceTreeFrontsMovementObjectsShapesMountainMachinesCamerasPhotographerBeing TrueGrassTexture Author:Paul Strand
“I can remember the moment when I suddenly felt that the camera was a living partner. I suddenly felt this is art, and the camera is a co-operative living person. After that I was extremely happy to act in films.” PersonsArtI CanMomentsRememberFilmFeltCamerasPartnersExtremely Happy Author:Erland Josephson
“I’ve always had dreams. When I was little, I’d go to sleep with my head on my hands, which were in fists like I was looking through a camera. I felt like sleep was the movies - just drifting off to the movies.” LittlesDreamHandsFeltSleepCamerasFistsGoing To SleepDriftingDrifting OffVivid Dreams Author:Sarah Silverman
“Pretty early on in making the first movie I realized that this is what I wanted to do. I felt like by that time I just found my niche, like this is what I was supposed to be doing. So I completely submerged myself into the world of watching movies, making my own movies, buying video cameras and lights. When I wasn't making a movie, I was making my own movies. When I wasn't making movies, I was watching movies. I was going back and studying film and looking back at guys that were perceived as great guys that I can identify with. It just became my life.” WorldFirstsI CanLightWantedFilmGuyFoundFeltMy OwnStudyCamerasI RealizedVideoSupposed To BeBuyingLooking BackNicheSubmergedMovie MakingGreat GuyVideo Cameras Author:Mark Wahlberg
“I felt that film (Let It Be) was set up by Paul for Paul. That is one of the main reasons the Beatles ended. I can't speak for George, but I pretty damn well know we got fed up of being sidemen for Paul. After Brian died, that's what happened, that's what began to happen to us. The camera work was set up to show Paul and not anybody else. And that's how I felt about it.” KnowsWellsI CanReasonShowsHappensFilmSpeakFeltMusicHappenedMusic IsDiedCamerasDamnFedsFed UpBrian Author:John Lennon
“I saw a video on YouTube of a girl who had very similar reactions to late-stage Lyme disease as I did. And I thought it was crazy. And when I saw her basically have a seizure on camera that looked very much like my seizure I felt, "Oh my god. That's me." And so it was really important to me, and I said to Sini, 'We have to find some way to not just talk about Lyme disease, but to show it.” WaySaidImportantShowsGirlFeltSawsCrazyStageDiseaseLateCamerasReactionsVideoYoutubeSeizures Author:Kathleen Hanna
“Sometimes I have taken photographs and just felt so excited that I could barely hold the camera steady, and the photo was boring.” SometimesFeltTakenCamerasPhotographExcitedBoringSteady Author:Robert Rauschenberg
“I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.” ShouldIdeasFeltEnjoyLosesAbilityTechnologyMagicMy FriendsAppreciateCamerasSunsetTerrified Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman
“I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear.” IfsWantTryingDifferentFeltFrontsSafeCamerasSafetyStudiosReactionsGatesTrying Something Author:Johnny Depp
“Film has always been hard for me, I'm basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.” HardFilmFeltStageFrontsComfortableCamerasActresses Author:Blythe Danner
“I found it liberating to sing on camera. On stage, you have to indicate having a thought, and the word you are singing must indicate it as well, but on camera, you can have ideas, you can take in all the stimuli that the character would be taking in, there's a freedom you get, and you don't have the obligation to transmit each idea to the back of the house. It felt so much closer to reality for me.” WellsIdeasCharacterRealityWould BeFoundHouseFeltStageSingingCamerasObligationLiberatingStimulusTransmit Author:Anne Hathaway
“I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.” IfsShouldCharacterHandsRealityLightFeltSoundCamerasAvailableScreensSuitsPilotsSplitsCrewDocumentariesPremises Author:Stephen Hopkins
“I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.” FirstsActorsEnergyFeltAudienceTheaterCamerasBlowChemistryBack And Forth Author:Glenn Close
“I really did feel like I was surrounded by family members. I didn't have a dad, and I remember there were all these guys - in the old days, there were no women, except a makeup artist or, occasionally, a script supervisor. So there were just guys who taught me how to, you know, whittle wood, or how to pull focus, and what the camera was doing. And if I was being bratty, they'd sit me down and tell me. There were lots of rules about not being late and making sure that you didn't spill anything. So it felt a little bit like I was in a family.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesRememberArtistGuyFeltBitsFocusTaughtDadMembersLateLittle BitDown AndCamerasScriptsWoodsMakeupOld DaysSpillsFamily MembersSupervisorsMakeup Artist Author:Jodie Foster
“There was actually a camera on your face. I don't know so much about the animation process but the camera was in our face so it could get expressions from our faces that would eventually arrive on the gnomes. It almost felt like you were cheating at times because it was a wee bit too much fun. You were in that box on your own. Kelly [Asbury] was in Toronto, I was in LA, so I was just on my own. I thought: "I can't be getting paid for this as well!"” KnowsWellsI CanFacesFunFeltBitsProcessMy OwnToo MuchExpressionLike YouPaidCamerasBoxesCheatingYour FaceAnimationTorontoGnomeToo Much Fun Author:Ashley Jensen
“With the RED, I didn't have this impression at all. I felt that it was as heavy as a film camera. Having this great crew, with the DP and his assistants, I found it making as much of an impression as a very big film camera. I didn't relate to it as much. I remember avoiding it during the shooting rather than paying attention to it.” BigsRememberFilmFoundFeltAttentionRedCamerasHeavyImpressionRelatePay AttentionShootingCrewAvoidingAssistants Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I didn't even know what acting was at 11 years old. I truly believed that acting was hidden cameras everywhere. And I felt that these actors on the screen were somehow real people.” PeopleKnowsYearsRealActorsFeltActingCamerasScreens Author:Masiela Lusha
“I actually have come to believe that if people were more connected to their fellow human beings, if we all felt more centred and fulfilled in our lives, maybe we would be pointing our cameras at a lot less social ills.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansWould BeSocialFeltHuman BeingsOur LivesCamerasFellowsConnectedFulfilledPointing Author:Joe Berlinger
“It was dripping and, you know, and there was a whole line of cameras and microphones. I felt like - you remember the honor guards, only it was a dishonor guard.” KnowsWholeRememberFeltLinesLike YouHonorCamerasMicrophonesDishonorDrippingDripping Water Author:Jim Bakker
“I don’t keep a travel diary. I did keep a travel diary once and it was a big mistake. All I remember of that trip is what I bothered to write down. Everything else slipped away, as though my mind felt jilted by my reliance on pen and paper. For exactly the same reason I don’t travel with a camera. My holiday becomes the snapshots and anything I forget to record is lost.” WritingMindReasonBigsRememberLostFeltForgetMistakeRecordsPaperCamerasHolidayPensRelianceDiariesBotheredSnapshotsBig MistakeJilted Author:Alex Garland
“The railway was part scalpel, part movie camera, slicing the city open, parading its inner workings at fifty frames per second. It was on the S-Bahn that she felt least abandoned, as if the act of travelling turned back the clock, and brought her nearer to the future she had lost.” IfsLostFeltCitiesCamerasClockFiftyAbandonedRailwayScalpels Author:Philip Sington
“I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.” IdeasEndsFormFeltSawsFocusMovementPhotographyDiscoveryUltimateCamerasFinalsPhotographerGlassesDetailsFinishedReleaseProportionManipulationPrintAllowingConceptionLensesExposurePresentationTextureShuttersPreconceived IdeasRediscoveryDuplication Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at all for the oceanic Lifeboat, because he felt audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the sea. Raksin said, Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from.” WritingSaidWantedAsksFeltWonderAudienceSeaMiddleDirectorsCamerasSongwritingLegendaryAnecdotesHitchcockLifeboats Author:Paul Zollo