“There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.” LittlesRomanceLyingBitsLittle BitCamerasLensesCamera LensesVaseline Author:Richard Jeni
“When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately.” LittlesBitsAttentionWorstLittle BitRedCamerasPreparedPlanesWorst ThingsCarpetRed CarpetBeing Famous Author:Beyonce Knowles
“I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.” GivingLittlesDifferentUseEyePerspectiveCamerasDetailsArchitecture Author:Edward Hopper
“The cameras were a little twitchy, and you'd get less footage and less set-ups every day. The interesting thing about it was that you just composed images in a completely different way because we had big 3D monitors on set, and you'd wear the glasses and see the image in 3D.” WayLittlesDifferentBigsInterestingCamerasGlassesDifferent WaysInteresting Things Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“It's like being called up in the draft. The peculiar joy of hemorrhaging without bleeding starts when the evil little red light glows on the monstrous camera.” LittlesLightJoyEvilRedCamerasPeculiarMonstrousBleedingRed Lights Author:Jack Gould
“There in front of me was the Senator on the floor being held by the busboy. There was nobody else around, and I made my first frame, and I forgot to focus the camera. The second frame was a little more in focus... then just for a second, while everything was open, the busboy looked up, and he had this look in his eye. I made that picture, and then suddenly the whole situation closed in again. And it became bedlam.(On the 1968 shooting of U.S. presidential candidate Bobby Kennedy.)” FirstsLooksLittlesMadeWholeEyeSituationFocusFrontsCamerasShootingPresidentialCandidatesHis EyesSenatorsPresidential CandidateBobby KennedyBusboys Author:Bill Eppridge
“Computer images, like camera images today, will be seen as representations of a simulated, second-degree reality with little or no connection to the unmediated world. This is one lesson we can learn from photographs, and especially from those of the last 25 years: images exist not to be believed, but to be interrogated.” WorldYearsLittlesRealityTodayLastsLessonsDegreesComputerConnectionsCamerasPhotographRepresentation Author:Andy Grundberg
“Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you're grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this - this kind of magical reaction with a camera.” PeopleWayKindLittlesTwoAbleStreetsPercentCamerasReactionsThrowingTwo WaysGemsGrabbingPortraitureFluencyTwo Way Street Author:Albert Watson
“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
“Most screenplays, most motion pictures, owe much more to the screenplay. Ingmar Bergman has such an economy of language, so little language in his piece, it is so visual, his moods are introduced and buttressed by camera rather than by word or character. But again, that's unique.” LittlesCharacterLanguageEconomyPiecesUniqueCamerasMoodVisualsScreenplaysMotion PicturesBergman Author:Rod Serling
“We don't have props or jewelery. You always want something tangible to play with, and we have nothing. I find myself playing with my hands off camera, just because I'm getting a little uncomfortable with the space.” WantLittlesPlayHandsSpaceCamerasUncomfortableWant SomethingTangibleProps Author:Laura Vandervoort
“Anytime you have to get intimate on camera, it's always a little interesting. You have to trick your brain almost, so that you don't get stage fright or get too much in your head where you're super uncomfortable.” LittlesInterestingBrainToo MuchStageCamerasTricksUncomfortableIntimateFrightStage Fright Author:Evan Rachel Wood
“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
“My brother and I spent countless hours as kids playing with our dad's home camera, we would create little sketches and movies and talk shows. But it wasn't until I was 10 that I started considering that I could do it as a job.” LittlesShowsHomeKidsJobsHoursBrotherDadCamerasMy BrotherConsideringTalk ShowsKids Playing Author:Jade Hassoune
“I think I did a couple of test commercials that didn't even make it on the air. That's how little I had really done. I knew almost nothing about the camera. In fact, I actually did know nothing about the camera.” ThinkingKnowsLittlesDoneFactsAirCoupleTestsCameras Author:Mary Steenburgen
“The Freebie cost virtually nothing. We funded the movie ourselves, people got paid, but were mostly paid in the back end, we used one of the cheaper cameras we could get. The movies have a look to them, you can sorta point out the really low-budget movie. So even if the heart of the movie and the story are really, really great, they always sorta feel a little cheap.” PeopleIfsFeelsLooksHeartLittlesEndsStoriesUsedCostLowsPaidCamerasBudgetsReally GreatCheaper Author:Katie Aselton
“Theater for me is terrifying but much more rewarding, because you know what they're seeing. Film is all little bits and pieces. And you can do an amazing job, but if the camera isn't getting it, it doesn't work. And then other times when you feel you really weren't present, and then you see it and somehow it works. So there's a mystery, there's a strange collaboration that takes place with everybody.” IfsKnowsFeelsLittlesJobsFilmBitsCan DoPiecesSeeingMysteryStrangeLittle BitTheaterCamerasCollaborationBits And PiecesAmazing Job Author:Susan Sarandon
“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 don't use iMovie and don't use shitty little cameras to try to prove something or say something because that's a part of the process. We do it just because that's what we like to use.” TryingLittlesUseProcessProveCameras Author:Casey Neistat
“Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you're not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt.” PeopleKnowsWantKindLittlesCountrySometimesWholeHelpingHomeSeemsHappensBitsSupportToo MuchTvsBearsLittle BitCamerasFolksThings HappenNot AloneLouisianaSupport You Author:Barack Obama
“You're talking about a whole camera crew and being mic'd up professionally everyday and just having another group of people following you around. It's a little different than having friends pick up a camera and follow you around.” PeopleLittlesDifferentWholeTalkingGroupsPicksCamerasEverydayFollowingCrewMics Author:Mike Stud
“We needed to do "Community Project" to feel comfortable doing our own thing, and then "That's It That's All" was this experiment with camera technology and shooting snowboarding a little differently. "Art of Flight" was that dream of "That's it That's All" realized. Then we didn't want to make an "Art of Flight 2," so we stepped back and tried to take a different approach to create a more multi-faceted film. "The Fourth Phase" has more of a storyline, and it was much more personal for me.” WantFeelsLittlesArtDifferentDreamFilmCommunityTechnologyNeededComfortableProjectsApproachCamerasExperimentsFlightShootingFourthPhasesStorylineSnowboardingDifferent Approach Author:Travis Rice
“Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal.” LooksLittlesSometimesHandsBitsFashionStyleNormalLittle BitCamerasDocumentaries Author:Steven Sebring
“Because I'm CGI, [John Swartz] gave me a role of an Imperial pilot in one scene, so I had a day where I was on camera dressed as a black suit and a little cap that they wear.” LittlesBlackRolesSceneCamerasSuitsPilotsCapsCgi Author:Alan Tudyk
“Of course, the whole photographic process has been made much faster, cleaner and far more accessible to people by digital innovations, which is really great. Everybody now has a camera, often as part of our phone, and most of these cameras require little to no technical training. An enormous variety of apps also enable us to take short cuts to finished images. We hardly need to even think anymore.” PeopleThinkingNeedsLittlesHas BeensMadeWholeCoursesProcessCuttingTrainingInnovationCamerasPhonesFinishedEnormousVarietyFasterDigitalReally GreatCleanersAppsShort CutsTechnical Training Author:Michael Kenna
“Things in the ring are definitely bigger, so that you can see them. But the movie world is completely different, and you have to hone things down because when that camera is so tight on you and so intimate and right up in your face, it's going to catch every little thing that you give it, and it's very easy to overdo it.” WorldGivingLittlesDifferentFacesEasyBiggerCamerasRingsIntimateLittle ThingsYour Face Author:Randy Orton
“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.” LifeLittlesEyeVisionPerspectiveProvePerceptionPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographPermitProvincesPhotography By PhotographersGreat PhotographyCamera And PhotographyArt PhotographyDigital PhotographyDocumentary Photography Author:Dorothea Lange
“I trained like an animal, but the thing is focus and concentration. When the bell rings it's like when the little red light goes on over the camera. And I can usually nail my lines on the first or second take because I'm right there.” FirstsLittlesI CanLightLinesAnimalFocusGoes OnRedCamerasRingsConcentrationBellsNailsRed LightsFocus And Concentration Author:Mickey Rourke
“I mean yes 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.” MeanLittlesTermChanceOne ThingPerformancesCamerasTake A ChanceCaptured Author:Lily Tomlin
“I was about 12 years old and I was sitting watching the television and it was some kind of talent show, you know, and on marches this monkey, this ape, in a pair of red-checked trousers with a little matching jacket holding a ukelele and it started jigging around playing it, and it was looking straight into the camera, straight at me, and I remember thinking, that's it, that'll be me, you know, that'll be me.” ThinkingKnowsYearsKindLittlesShowsRememberTalentTelevisionSittingRedCamerasPairsMarchMonkeysJacketsApesTrousersMatchingTalent Show Author:Nick Cave
“I can grow cameras!" she had shrieked at the Brill brothers during one briefing. "Who's to say that despicable centaur Foaly hasn't succeded in splicing surveillance equiptment to plants? So get rid of all the flowers. Rocks, too. I don't trust them. Sullen little blebers.” LittlesI CanGrowsRocksBrotherFlowerCamerasPlantSurveillanceDon't TrustDespicableSullenBriefingCentaurs Author:Eoin Colfer
“Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty. Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head. "Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy? On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!” FirstsLittlesWould BeGuyTvsDutyRedStandingCamerasScreensShouldersConsideringHelloArrowsAssignmentsCall Of DutyAbove And Beyond Author:J.R. Ward
“At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.” WantKindLittlesHardBitsSkillsLittle BitBallsCamerasHard TimesFrustratingNew Skills Author:Parminder Nagra
“I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'” IfsThinkingWantWellsLittlesSaidKissingCamerasTrackTongueWhat You WantThroat Author:Rod Steiger
“I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.” WayLooksLittlesPersonsRealBirdSickCamerasActressesScreensReal LifeMiserableDietsDietingScarecrow Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“The majority of my background is multi-camera format, which is very broad and a very arch perception of reality. Whereas single camera tends to be more truthful and a little more intimate of a medium. Friends was an education in intelligent comedic banter; in intelligent vernacular. It was an education in scene study. It was an education in group dynamic. I came out of there with a masters degree in comedy.” LittlesRealityStudyComedyGroupsMastersSceneDegreesPerceptionIntelligentCamerasMajorityBackgroundsMediumsIntimateBroadsTruthfulFormatBanterComedicArchesVernacularPerception RealityMasters Degree Author:Matt LeBlanc
“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
“Sometimes I take the watch, or I take the shoes, but usually the souvenir is to take the life you had with those directors, or the crew - the camera person, the lighting person. When you finish a film it's like a little death. You had a family for a bit, and you finish the movie and you probably will never see each other again.” LittlesPersonsSometimesFilmBitsWatchesDirectorsCamerasShoesCrewLightingSouvenirs Author:Jean Reno
“I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.” PeopleWayLoveLittlesStoriesInterestingCamerasDialogueCinemaReally InterestingTelling StoriesInteresting Ways Author:Alex Winter
“The great hope is that people who wouldn't normally make films will be making them. Suddenly, one day some little fat girl in Ohio is going to be the new Mozart and make a beautiful film with her father's camera and for once the so called professionalism about movies will be destroyed forever - and it will really become an art form.” PeopleLittlesArtBeautifulFilmFormGirlFatherForeverOne DayCamerasFatsDestroyedOhioProfessionalismGreat HopeFat Girl Author:Francis Ford Coppola