“The camera machine cannot evade the objects which are in front of it. When the photographer selects this movement, the light, the objects, he must be true to them. If he includes in his space a strip of grass, it must be felt as the living differentiated thing it is and so recorded. It must take its proper but no less important place as a shape and a texture in relationship to the mountain tree or what not, which are included.” IfsImportantLightFeltSpaceTreeFrontsMovementObjectsShapesMountainMachinesCamerasPhotographerBeing TrueGrassTexture Author:Paul Strand
“There is a secret, I think. When you are front of a camera there is something that happens. Some relationship, some movement, some strange kind of suspension. That's where you find the layer in yourself that is duplicated in everyone. And when you get it right, if you can imagine all the hearts beating in one beat, it's like that. It's beautiful.” IfsThinkingHeartKindHappensBeautifulSecretImagineFrontsMovementStrangeBeatsCamerasLayersHeart BeatSuspensionHeart Beating Author:Juliette Binoche
“The holy trifecta of directing and filmmaking is character emotion, camera movement and music. When you hit those three, that's magical. That's what I'm trying to do.” TryingCharacterThreeEmotionMovementHolyCamerasFilmmakingTrifecta Author:David O. Russell
“The idea that the snapshot would be thought of as a cult or movement is very tiresome to me and, I'm sure, confusing to others. It's a swell word I've always liked. It probably came about because it describes a basic fact of photography. In a snap, or small portion of time, all that the camera can consume in breadth and bite and light is rendered in astonishing detail: all the leaves on a tree, as well as the tree itself and all its surroundings.” WellsIdeasFactsLightWould BeTreeMovementPhotographyCamerasDetailsBitesPortionsCultConfusingSurroundingsAstonishingSnapsBreadthSnapshotsTiresome Author:Lee Friedlander
“What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.” MomentsMovingActorsDecisionActingEmotionStyleMovementCamerasAtmosphereThat Moment Author:Xavier Dolan
“A system of cameras and censors are used along the border and interior to help detect the movement of illegal immigrants crossing through the dense brush.” HelpingUsedMovementCamerasBordersImmigrantsIllegalBrushesInteriorsCrossingsDenseIllegal Immigrants Author:Timothy Murphy
“The camera movement should be like a cat jumping onto a table - with just enough amount of effort and that's it. That's enough.” ShouldEnoughEffortMovementAmountCatCamerasTablesJumping Author:Steve McQueen
“Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part in telling the story as well, like what I really believe in with all the films I make.” WantBelieveWellsImportantStoriesBigsFilmDesignMovementAspectCameras Author:James Wan
“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
“Musicals and horror films can be very non-verbal and very pure cinema with movement. The camera is justified in being a character. It can really move and tell a story, and literally direct you to look here or there.” LooksCharacterStoriesFilmMovingMovementHorrorPureDirectCamerasCinemaJustifiedHorror Film Author:Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
“I daydream too. I visualise. I think ahead, I can do it now, sitting here. I think ahead to the walk-in, I can hear the crowd, the music, I can feel the cameras all around me, I can feel movements in my body as I am heading there, I can bring up that incredible feeling you get when you step into the cage.” ThinkingFeelsI CanFeelingsBodyCan DoWalksStepsMovementSittingCamerasIncrediblesCrowdsCagesDaydreamingHeadingsI Can Do It Author:Conor McGregor
“I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it.” IfsStudyFocusMovementExpressionEssentialsCrossesCamerasRaisedTake TimeSectionsRevealingFractions Author:Julio Cortazar
“Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.” WantHandsActionUsedRaceCuttingModernMovementCamerasTechniqueAction MovieZoomDeath Race Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation. When the first great distances of space were conquered by technology, a camera altered the human perspective on the Earth as radically as Galileo did when he proved the sun was the center of the universe. The ecology movement was born from a photographically altered consciousness.” TryingFirstsHumansEarthUniverseWaterBornSpaceConsciousnessTechnologySunDoorsMovementPerspectiveAskingCamerasDistanceFishesHardestRevelationsEcologyAlteredCenter Of The Universe Author:Vicki Goldberg
“My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static.” MovementCamerasConstantPhotographInstantCaptureStatic Book:Clinton is innocent Source: Clinton is innocent
“The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.” IfsMadeMovingMotherChoicesActorsSpaceDecisionLevelsRoomsNumbersExampleMovementCamerasPracticalsTeaKitchenConsiderationPotAngleVersusLiving RoomLarge NumbersSmall SpacesCamera Angles Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.” IfsWantLooksEndsHappensActorsGivenLinesWrittenAirMovementWallScenePagesWindowCamerasStartingScriptsLandscapeFixedGesturesHighwaysEloquentStarting PointSuspended Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“I think you can say a lot with the movement of your camera but you can also say a lot by keeping it still.” ThinkingStillsMovementCameras Author:James Wan
“Motion capture is amazing. I prefer it. You wear a 'Power Ranger'-esque suit, you have tape balls on you, you have 60 cameras around you capturing your every movement and there's no hair, no makeup.” MovementHairBallsCamerasSuitsMakeupCaptureTapeRangersSuits YouNo MakeupPower Rangers Author:Kellan Lutz
“My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.” ArtBookPhilosophyArtistFrontsMovementCamerasPaintMuseumsCanvasMultitudesBrushesExhibitsPaint Brushes Author:Steve Prefontaine
“There's a lot of thinking when you choreograph something. You're not just choreographing some bodies, arms, legs flying around to look cool. It's a lot more complicated and sophisticated. You also have to deal with the connection of the whole film, so when I choreograph, I think of the movement itself, the camera angles, the characters.” ThinkingLooksWholeCharacterBodyFilmDealsMovementArmsConnectionsCamerasLegsComplicatedFlyingSophisticatedAngleCamera Angles Author:Donnie Yen
“I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.” IdeasEndsFormFeltSawsFocusMovementPhotographyDiscoveryUltimateCamerasFinalsPhotographerGlassesDetailsFinishedReleaseProportionManipulationPrintAllowingConceptionLensesExposurePresentationTextureShuttersPreconceived IdeasRediscoveryDuplication Book:Edward Weston on photography Source: Edward Weston on photography
“In Hitchcocks eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.” HumansEyeWantedHuman BeingsActingAudienceMovementDirectorsCamerasMovedDramaticSubtleHitchcock Author:Bruce Dern