“Some cameras are heavier and need to be on tripods. Others are small enough to hide in your pocket. There are places where you don't want to feel like you are disturbing anything, so I may use a camera like that.” WantNeedsFeelsMayEnoughUseLike YouCamerasPocketsDisturbingTripods Author:Jonas Mekas
“The job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.” PeopleIfsSaidJobsSoundRoomsStageLike YouCameras Author:Bill Nighy
“It's nice to not feel like you're just re-enacting a preconceived moment, but there's room for an organic feeling to develop while the camera is rolling. Even amidst these enormous technical productions, Chris [ Nolan] always prioritized making sure that sort of spontaneous and organic feeling could happen at the moment.” FeelsMomentsFeelingsHappensRoomsNiceLike YouCamerasProductionsEnormousRollingSpontaneousNolan Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“It's not racism per se but the tyranny of normalcy - no: the tyranny of attractive normalcy. Which leads to loveable white models who are supposed to be playing ordinary, adorably flawed professionals just like you and me with their brilliant minority friends (with vastly less camera time) who are surgeons. But it's not just ethnicity. That narrow vision also extends to, say, things like women leads. Women leads have to be good-hearted and nice, with a Slutty Best Friend. The main character can't be slutty. Because that's not attractively normal etc” CharacterWhiteVisionNiceTelevisionLike YouNormalModelsRacismOrdinaryCamerasBe GoodBrilliantTyrannySupposed To BeAttractiveEtcMinoritiesFlawedHeartedSurgeonsEthnicityNormalcyMain CharactersGood Hearted Author:Sandra Tsing Loh
“There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'” KnowsShouldShowsBigsHappensActorsStarsLike YouCamerasProductions Author:Paddy Considine
“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.” ThinkingFeelsMeanMomentsFilmCan DoFocusStageLike YouIntegrityTheaterCamerasIntentionExtraordinaryDareScreensCinemaIntensityTheatricalViewpointsCan Do SomethingExtraordinary Moments Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“Handheld camera is approximating what we're seeing when we're looking at each other, and kind of looking around, and your eyes whipping around. It adds an immediacy, where you feel like you are watching something through your own eyes, standing there with them. And that just allows you to take more liberties and have more fun with people's behavior.” PeopleFeelsKindEyeFunLibertySeeingLike YouBehaviorStandingCamerasAddStanding ThereImmediacyWhipping Author:Paul Feig
“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 think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets.” ThinkingRealUniverseActorsSecretLike YouDirectorsTheaterCamerasSurfaceReal LifeInvisibleFascinatingExploringLensesMicroscopesCamera Lenses Author:Isabelle Huppert
“It's a hard job to get the camera to see it like you see it. Sometimes you have it just the way you want it, and then you look in the camera and you don't have the balance. The main thing is to get the camera to see it the way you see it.” WayWantLooksSometimesHardJobsLike YouBalanceCameras Author:James Van Der Zee
“You really feel like you're on the cutting edge and you know you are because all the camera equipment you take for granted doesn't exist for 3-D. So all the cranes with all the stabilized heads, they don't work on 3-D because they're all built for lightweight camera packages. As soon as you kind of put two cameras together and all the other crap that they need and the cabling to go back to the computers, we've literally, the cranes on these movies, they break after a couple of days.” KnowsNeedsFeelsKindTwoTogetherBreakCuttingLike YouCoupleComputerBuiltCamerasEdgesGrantedCrapEquipmentPackagesCutting EdgeCranes Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“I think Instagram at its best is where you feel like you're getting the most authentic version of the person on the other side of the camera.” ThinkingFeelsPersonsSidesLike YouCamerasVersionsInstagram Author:Kevin Systrom
“One thing that is very different technically is that you don't get a lot of coverage in television. Not like you do on a film. I know we don't have time for separate set-ups, so I will design a scene where I'm hiding multiple cameras within that set-up. That way, if I don't have time to do five set-ups, I can do four cameras in one set-up. It's a different kind of approach for that. For the most part, a lot of television, in a visual sense, lacks time for the atmosphere and putting you in a place.” IfsKnowsWayKindI CanDifferentFilmCan DoFiveFourOne ThingDesignTelevisionLike YouSceneApproachCamerasAtmosphereVisualsHidingDifferent KindsMultipleCoverage Author:Len Wiseman
“It's a social media time, where you have YouTube and everything it's kind of like you see my career grow up on camera. But a lot of the things that you would see from artists would be behind the scenes that nobody would know about before, now it's all on display.” KnowsKindWould BeArtistSocialGrowsBehindsCareersGrowing UpMediaLike YouSceneCamerasSocial MediaDisplayYoutubeBehind The Scenes Author:Young De
“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
“I really love it, I love working with directors that are very collaborative and allow me input. I've done over 75 films, it's just like you're an apprentice. You learn so much about camerawork, lenses, and I'm always talking about DPs and directors and they always give me lists. I think pretty soon, I'll be ready to move away from being in front of the camera.” ThinkingGivingDoneFilmMovingTalkingFrontsReadyLike YouDirectorsGive MeCamerasListsLensesInputApprentice Author:John Leguizamo
“When someone shuts down on you... There were a couple of times of somebody that was just unpleasant, and you can't get them to loosen up. It's this horrible spiral when it's on camera, because you're trying to get them to like you, to trust you, to give you decent answers.” GivingTryingAnswersLike YouCoupleCamerasHorribleDecentSpirals Author:Jancee Dunn
“It's hard to put yourself in front of a camera, in front of the world, when you don't feel like you look the part. I've always had that problem. But I deal with it every day. When I'm interviewing, I'm like, "How do I look? Do I look all right?"” WorldFeelsLooksHardProblemDealsFrontsLike YouCameras Author:Landau Eugene Murphy Jr.
“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
“The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.” InspirationalForgetLike YouPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographHidingForget YouPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyCamera And Photography Author:Annie Leibovitz
“When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.” FeelsArtistLike YouCamerasPhotographerCompanionSomeone You Like Author:Annie Leibovitz
“When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do ... I don't really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it's the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!” InspirationalHandsFunnyLike YouTravelCamerasYeahSillyBombsButtonsFunny Travel Author:Dane Cook
“I have equal parts film and digital cameras in my collection. I think that there are ways to Photoshop photos so that they look like you shot them on film, but is that as rewarding? It just depends on the person.” ThinkingWayLooksPersonsFilmLike YouDependsEqualShotsCamerasCollectionsDigitalPhotoshopDigital Cameras Author:Dianna Agron
“Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.” DealsLike YouCamerasComicTimingHaskell Author:Colleen Haskell