“The more commercial work that is happening, the more people are operating cameras and are setting up studio lights, the greater the opportunity for drama production to happen.” PeopleLightHappensOpportunityGreaterDramaHappeningsCamerasProductionsStudiosSettingSettings Author:Ann Macbeth
“I'm not so much in the future as always in the present. The future always takes care of itself. What I do now with my video camera, it can only record what is happening now. I am celebrating reality and the essence of the moment. And that's the greatest challenge that I have.” MomentsRealityCareChallengesRecordsHappeningsEssenceCamerasTake CareVideoCelebrateVideo Cameras Author:Jonas Mekas
“We all experience it. Those moments when we gasp and say, Oh, look at that. Maybe it's nothing more than the way a shadow glides across a face, but in that split second, when you realize something truly remarkable is happening and disappearing right in front of you, if you can pass a camera before your eye, you'll tear a piece of time out of the whole, and in a breath, rescue it and give it new meaning.” IfsWayGivingLooksWholeMomentsEyeFacesRealizingPiecesFrontsTearsHappeningsShadowBreathsCamerasPhotographerDisappearRemarkableSplitsRescue Author:Joel Meyerowitz
“To act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting. You know you can't go back next week and fix it. Whereas in a live audience you know it's so in the moment and you just go with what's happening. First of all you never have to see it again so you don't know if you were really fulfilling it or not.” IfsKnowsFirstsLittlesMomentsNextTermChanceAudienceOne ThingWeekHappeningsPerformancesCamerasFulfillingTake A ChanceCapturedNext Week Author:Lily Tomlin
“If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.” IfsHumansPersonsHandsFallSpaceStreetsEffectsEventsFiguresBuildingReadyWalkingHappeningsCamerasPhotographFallenThemeLoadedPhotojournalism Author:Leonard Nimoy
“I don't want to force somebody to talk about sensitive subjects if they're not into it, but at the very least, even if that's happening off camera, it's allowing everybody to be on the same level, and creates an atmosphere on set that engenders trust.” IfsWantForceLevelsSubjectsHappeningsCamerasAtmosphereSensitiveAllowing Author:Joe Swanberg
“I like to think in camera, but at the last minute the most important thing is that there is something happening between the actors. But good actors can have a lot of scenes going around them but sometimes it sort of helps the performance because it takes their mind off of who they are supposed to be.” ThinkingMindImportantSometimesHelpingLastsActorsMinutesSceneHappeningsPerformancesCamerasImportant ThingsThings HappenSupposed To BeGood ActorsLast Minute Author:Audrey Tautou
“You try to become the character that you're working with. So for me, I try to block out the cameras and try to trick my mind that this is actually happening.” TryingMindCharacterHappeningsCamerasTricksBlock Author:Bailee Madison
“Obviously, we can see what was in front of the camera, but if a photograph is honestly made, it's a bit of a self-portrait. I think it's impossible for a photographer who is working honestly to keep this from happening.” IfsThinkingMadeSelfBitsImpossibleFrontsPhotographyHappeningsCamerasPhotographerPhotographHonestlyMade ItPortraitsSelf Portrait Author:John Sexton
“I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen.” MenWantEffortToo MuchSpecialEffectsFrontsHe ManInvolvedHappeningsCamerasSurfaceScreensGet InvolvedSpecial Effects Author:Steve McQueen
“I'm a little jaded about change actually happening, I'll admit. The numbers are exactly the same as they were two decades ago, in terms of the number of female leads, or people behind the camera, all of that. I'll certainly do my part, and I feel like Jessica Jones is a great step.” PeopleFeelsLittlesTwoTermNumbersBehindsStepsHappeningsFemaleCamerasDecadesJadedJessicaJessica Jones Author:Melissa Rosenberg
“I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.” IfsThinkingFilmMiddleFrontsLike YouCallingDirectorsConversationHappeningsRelationCamerasMediumsExtrasNo PointLoopsCinematographersKidding Yourself Author:David Douglas
“I understand the opposite side of the camera. I have a profound respect for that. I have worked with people who, when you hit that mark, are doing 50 percent of your work for you. So, you know, it's a balance. When you walk into a mark and you're lit a certain way or something's happening so often you don't know what's behind you... And that's what's so strange about being a movie actor.” PeopleKnowsWayCertainActorsSidesWalksBehindsStrangeBalanceHappeningsPercentOppositesMarkCamerasProfoundLitBehind YouMovie Actors Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Sometimes you just gotta get in front of the camera because sometimes you have a long break between things, or you're auditioning and maybe nothing's really happening.” LongSometimesBreakFrontsHappeningsCameras Author:Jonathan Lipnicki
“Look at something like cooking. Now, you would hear a lot about smart kitchens and augmented kitchens. And what do those smart kitchens actually do? They police what's happening inside the kitchen. They have cameras that distinguish ingredients one from each other and that tell you that shouldn't mix this ingredient with another ingredient.” LooksSmartHappeningsPoliceCamerasCookingKitchenIngredients Author:Evgeny Morozov
“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
“You have to communicate on a much greater scale. With a camera, you can use the flick of an eye. On stage, a lot of other things are happening that can pull focus or energy. You're always thinking the same way, but you have to amplify your thoughts with the volume of your speech and the ways you use your whole body to communicate what you're feeling. It's a little bit different from film.” ThinkingWayLittlesDifferentWholeUseFeelingsBodyEyeFilmEnergyBitsGreaterFocusStageSpeechLittle BitHappeningsCamerasCommunicateScalesVolumeAlways ThinkingAmplifyThinking The Same Author:Jeremy Irons