“Any actor working a long time should know how a shot is set up, where to place themselves, how to handle the lines. I'm a member of the crew, like the best boy, the electrician. What I'm good at is making eyes at the camera.” KnowsShouldLongEyeActorsLinesBoysKnow HowMembersLong TimeShotsCamerasHandleCrewElectrician Author:Jodie Foster
“Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.” KnowsStoriesKidsFilmStuffKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingSpecialEffectsDrawsCamerasBudgetsFrustrationMy SisterSpecial Effects Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.” ThinkingKnowsDoeStoriesLightBeautifulFilmKnow HowMarkCamerasRhythmRememberedOur TimeMakersBeautiful Images Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“With directors, some have a kind of in-built ability to just know how to work with actors and get the best out of actors, and some don't have a clue about acting. I think it'd be a good idea if directors put themselves in front of the camera, or even went on a six-week drama course, just to know a little bit about what that feels like.” IfsThinkingKnowsFeelsKindLittlesIdeasCoursesActorsBitsAbilityActingKnow HowWeekFrontsDramaDirectorsSixLittle BitBuiltCamerasGood IdeasClue Author:Paddy Considine
“I may not be funny. I may not be a singer. I may not be a damn seamstress. I may have diabetes. I may have really bad vision. I may have one leg. I may not know how to read. I may not know who the vice president is. I may technically be an alien of the state. I may have a Zune. I may not know Excel. I may be two 9-year-olds in a trench coat. I may not have full control of my bowels. I may drive a '94 Honda Civic. I may not “get” cameras. I may dye my hair with Hydrogen Peroxide. I may be afraid of trees. I may be on fire right now. But I'm a fierce queen.” KnowsYearsMayTwoStatesPresidentVisionKnow HowFireTreeHairRight NowCamerasVicesLegsSingersAliensQueensDamnFierceCoatsCivicsVice PresidentDiabetesHydrogenTrenchesI May Not BeBowelsHondaTrench Coats Author:Justin Johnson
“If I had not lived the life I had lived and did not have the wife I have and the children I have, I would never know how to play that role [of Dr. Bedsloe], and I wouldn't have any of those qualities. It's a real example of how it is true that the camera catches everything. Even the stuff you're trying to hide.” IfsKnowsTryingChildrenRealPlayStuffQualityRolesKnow HowWifeExampleCamerasDrs Author:Kurt Fuller
“I don't think film schools are mentoring kids. I think they just send them through the curriculum, so now you know how to hold a camera, how to use a Dx3 menu. You can learn that in five minutes from somebody that doesn't even know anything. But what do you know if you haven't read anything - studied art and studied literature - what do you have to contribute?” IfsThinkingKnowsArtUseKidsSchoolFilmLiteratureKnow HowFiveMinutesHavensCamerasDo You KnowFive MinutesCurriculumMentoringMenusFilm School Author:Rob Nilsson
“But actually my dad is a very talented director and not just his use of shots and camera, but he's very good with actors and he knows acting well. It's great to see him do that and be really good at it and he's been doing it for a while and he certainly knows how to make movies, and little movies I guess for a television show, and he's going to come back in November to direct a second episode, which I'm really excited about.” KnowsWellsLittlesUseShowsActorsActingKnow HowTelevisionDadDirectorsShotsDirectCamerasMy DadVery GoodExcitedEpisodesNovemberTelevision Shows Author:Emily Deschanel
“I am a good model because I have mastered my craft. I have accepted my body, I know it well and I know how to move in front of the camera.” KnowsWellsBodyMovingKnow HowFrontsModelsCamerasAcceptedCrafts Author:Crystal Renn
“I do very little on-camera acting, so within a phrase as a voice actor you have to know how to convey when someone is 95 years old or 19 years old. . . When I was the lead singer of the California Raisins commercials there was a traditional actor there as well and he would do all these body movements without saying anything because he was "acting." And the only acting the microphone picked up on was silence.” KnowsYearsWellsLittlesBodyActorsVoiceActingSilenceKnow HowMovementCamerasSingersTraditionalCaliforniaPhrasesMicrophonesRaisinsBody Movement Author:Jim Cummings
“In the first season (of 'Californication'), when we had the threesome with the nipple clamps, I was, like, 'I don't get this, I don't know how you're gonna do it.' And then, all of a sudden, there's a crane with a camera hanging over our heads, and you're, like, 'Okayyyyyyy. But how are you gonna sell this? How are you gonna make it work?' And they ended up shooting it brilliantly, cutting it together, and it just all ended up working without me having to compromise my own personal morals.” KnowsFirstsTogetherMy OwnMoralKnow HowCuttingSeasonsCamerasSellsCompromiseShootingNipplesCranesThreesome Author:Pamela Adlon
“I always think of childhood as the inarticulate moment, and you have your little camera. You were filming it, recording it, you just didn't know how to speak it.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesMomentsSpeakKnow HowChildhoodCamerasInarticulate Author:Eileen Myles
“My sympathies go out to the young performers today because they are under a microscope in a way I wasn't. Now everybody's got a camera phone and can record at will or take pictures of you. It's just a different world. I don't know how I would have fared back then.” KnowsWorldWayDifferentTodayYoungKnow HowRecordsCamerasPhonesPerformersDifferent WorldsMicroscopesMy Sympathy Author:Ricky Schroder
“I made films from the - when I was a little kid, my father bought me a movie camera. I just wanted to. I don't know how. You just learn, you just do it. You just do it.” KnowsLittlesMadeKidsWantedFilmFatherKnow HowCamerasLittle KidJust Do It Author:Robert Barry
“I can't tell if the world is worse now or if we just have more cameras. There are cameras everywhere, so now the world knows how bad the world is.” IfsKnowsWorldI CanKnow HowCameras Author:Eric Andre
“The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWellsLyingAudienceKnow HowDependsLoversCamerasBlindMoodHungryFeel GoodEveningDamnTouchedFickleBlind Date Author:Bill Oberst Jr.
“Usually people in the acting business end up both in front of and behind the camera. Working for so long in the business, I know how it works. It's not too much of a challenge; the challenge is making it all come together, being in charge of a huge team of people that you trust.” PeopleKnowsLongEndsTogetherChallengesActingBehindsKnow HowToo MuchTeamFrontsHugeCamerasWorking It Author:Dustin Diamond
“I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.” KnowsWayLooksStillsNextInspiringKnow HowMirrorsCamerasLengthPublicity Author:Marilyn Monroe
“The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.” KnowsWorldWantFirstsMadeTwoTogetherLastsFilmTurnsRoomsKnow HowPiecesCuttingMinutesTearsMaterialsCamerasStudiosTurn Me Author:Buster Keaton