“The first dolly track was somebody who had the idea to put the camera on a boat on a canal. So the boat would move very slowly but steadily. So they would see all that surrounds you and you'd see the landscape changing slowly. So that was the first time.” FirstsIdeasMovingFirst TimeCamerasTrackBoatLandscapeSurroundCanals Author:Michel Gondry
“I've been to Africa many times in the past 20 years, but I can't believe this is the first time since the very first Red Nose Day, that I've been back to Ethiopia. The last time I was here was just after the famine and it was crazy, there were people all over the place, kids without families, aid workers, camera crews.” PeopleYearsFirstsBelieveI CanKidsLastsPastCrazyFirst TimeRedCamerasWorkersAidsNosesLast TimeCrewFamineEthiopia Author:Lenny Henry
“You cannot begin to imagine the shock I had when I came down on the floor for the first time. First of all, there's this whole thing about playing sitcom comedy. I didn't want to do the sitcom thing, but I didn't know what else to do. I went slowly. We went through the week of rehearsal, then we got on the floor with the cameras, which I'm used to because of my experience in the old days. Then came camera day, with an audience, and it was stunning, enthralling, exciting and chaotic. I had never experienced anything like that before, as an actor. I was part minstrel, part actor.” KnowsWantFirstsWholeUsedActorsAudienceComedyImagineWeekFirst TimeExcitingCamerasShockRehearsalChaoticOld DaysSitcomStunningMinstrels Author:William Shatner
“I started working in front of the camera for the first time when I was 15 years old. I joined a soap opera. We filmed in Brooklyn and I would skip class to shoot my scenes. It was terrifying and I entirely self-conscious in front of the camera.” YearsFirstsSelfClassFrontsSceneConsciousFirst TimeCamerasOperaSoapSelf ConsciousBrooklynSkipSoap Operas Author:Paul Wesley
“My first time acting for camera really was for Steven Spielberg in War Horse. I was trained in theater and I was actually working in theater at the time. I had a small role with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which is a huge prestigious theater company back in England. I honestly thought that was as good as it got.” FirstsWarActingCompanyRolesHugeFirst TimeHorseEnglandTheaterCamerasHonestlyRoyalPrestigiousSmall RolesWar Horse Author:Jeremy Irvine
“...I use primal imagery, so maybe it's fitting that I use the most primitive of cameras [pinhole cameras]. Since there's no viewfinder, the image is much more of a surprise - as if some outsider came and looked at earth for the first time.” IfsFirstsUseEarthFirst TimeCamerasSurprisePrimitiveOutsidersImageryFittingPrimal Author:Barbara Ess
“I discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life.” FirstsYoungChanceWifeBuildingPhotographyFirst TimeCamerasMy WifeParisArchitectLenses Author:Sebastiao Salgado
“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
“That was an interesting thing I learned I think the first time I did a late night show or something. It was like, "Oh, this is for the camera and a performance that you're giving to the people at home."” PeopleThinkingGivingFirstsShowsHomeNightInterestingLateFirst TimePerformancesCamerasInteresting ThingsLate Night Author:John Mulaney
“I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.” ThinkingShouldTryingFirstsReadyFirst TimeCamerasRehearsal Author:Oliver Stone
“This uses a lens system, which I have used for years in various different ways, but I've never used it in the context of an interview. This is the very first time that I've done that. It's a lens called The Revolution, so it allowed me to interview Elsa [Dorfman] and actually operate the camera. Well one of the cameras, because there were four cameras there.” WayYearsFirstsWellsDifferentDoneUseUsedFourRevolutionFirst TimeCamerasVariousDifferent WaysInterviewsLensesElsa Author:Errol Morris
“The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop.” FirstsHoursFourTvsFirst TimeTwentiesCamerasHotelStationsPaparazziTaiwan Author:Jeremy Lin
“I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.” PeopleFirstsAmericaFacesMotherWalkingDaughterFirst TimeCamerasVideoShopsMy DaughterYour FaceComing OutShockedBackwardsPizzaVideo CamerasWalking Backwards Author:Stephen Moyer
“My first modeling job was Gap, and my first time in front of the camera was for a Soda Pop Girls commercial - it's one of those Bratz dolls, Barbie dollsone of those.” FirstsJobsGirlFrontsFirst TimeCamerasPopsGapsModelingDollsSodaBarbieBarbie DollsSoda Pop Author:Hailee Steinfeld