“Everything about filmmaking is incredibly weird, and there's nothing natural about watching yourself on the big screen or hearing your voice. It's that same thing that you feel when you watch yourself on a video camera and you hate the sound of your voice - it's that times 800.” FeelsBigsHateActorsSoundVoiceNaturalWatchesCamerasHearingScreensVideoMovieFilmmakingBig ScreenVideo CamerasHearing Your Voice Author:Eddie Redmayne
“The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.” PeopleWayKindArtMadeMatterFilmDoubtObjectsMaterialsSceneBattleBasesCamerasNo Matter WhatArguingGenuineJournalismFilmmakerMovieAntiwarMotion PicturesStardom Author:Renata Adler
“I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.” ThinkingWantNeedsI CanActorsCan DoCamerasMovieFilmmaking Author:Anna Kendrick
“The idea of working with Steven Spielberg was very attractive. He's such a master. He knows the language of the camera and of filmmaking, which gives him a great freedom.” KnowsGivingIdeasActorsLanguageMastersCamerasAttractiveMovieFilmmakingGreat Freedom Author:Max von Sydow
“I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.” YearsFeelingsActorsDadCamerasMy DadNervousMovieWornThrilling Author:Steven Spielberg
“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.” EyeFilmPoetCamerasMoviePoeticFilm DirectingDirecting Film Author:Orson Welles
“I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.” CompanyFrontsCamerasMovie Author:Robert Wagner
“The '80s were a time of technical wonder in filmmaking; unfortunately, some colleges didn't integrate their film and theater departments - so you had actors who were afraid of the camera, and directors who couldn't talk to the actors.” FilmActorsWonderCollegeDirectorsTheaterCamerasMovieDepartmentFilmmaking80sIntegrating Author:Eric Stoltz