“I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it.” ShouldIdeasFeltEnjoyLosesAbilityTechnologyMagicMy FriendsAppreciateCamerasSunsetTerrified Author:Shilo Shiv Suleman
“I've always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that's how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.” WayWellsComedyMy FriendsCamerasTimingRollingAussies Author:Alex O'Loughlin
“My filmmaking background has really just been making movies with my friends since I was 12 years old. That's how I feel I learned how to tell a story visually, by just going out with a video camera and making movies with my friends and family.” FeelsYearsStoriesMy FriendsCamerasBackgroundsVideoFilmmakingGoing OutFamily And FriendsVideo Cameras Author:Rian Johnson
“To be honest, I don't see myself acting forever. I just can't imagine myself being a 70-year-old man fighting for roles. I would love to do small parts in my friends' movies or things that I'm directing myself. I do envision myself behind the camera as I get a little bit older.” MenYearsLittlesFightingBitsActingBehindsRolesForeverImagineHonestLittle BitMy FriendsCamerasBeing HonestOld ManSmall Parts Author:Dave Franco
“My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown.” SchoolPhotographyMy FriendsCamerasDowntown Author:William Eggleston
“When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering.” ShouldHas BeensNextStuffTvsDirectorsMy FriendsStandingShould HaveCamerasShould Have Been Author:Robert B. Weide
“My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.” PersonsRealWholeBeautifulBlackWhiteSpecialMomSceneMy FriendsCamerasPhotographerMy MomErasPunkBlack And WhitePortraitsManualsBaltimoreCanonSpecial Times Author:Jeff Vespa
“The Canon AE1 - a fully manual camera. [My mother] had a 50mm, which is a standard lens, and then I got a 28mm. Then I started a little punk magazine, a zine, when I was 14 or 15 years old. I was shooting my friends skateboarding and it was the beginning of the Macintosh. We wouldn't do layouts on the computer; we would pick the font and then type up a paragraph and then print it out and cut it up and put it in a little mock-up and Xerox it.” YearsLittlesMotherCuttingTypeComputerStandardsPicksMy FriendsCamerasMagazinesShootingPrintPunkLensesMockParagraphManualsCanonSkateboardingMacintoshLayoutFontsXeroxZines Author:Jeff Vespa
“I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn't planned; it was realism. Over the years, the work has changed for me. I know that I have wanted to repeat myself, but I can't. I've been lost a lot of times, but then I'd just get an idea and photograph it. Once I'd started, I'd know exactly what would go down and how it would end. So I just quit doing it, because it loses all interest for me when you know what's going to happen.” KnowsYearsI CanIdeasEndsHappensWantedPurposeLostInterestLosesHappenedChangedMy FriendsDown AndCamerasPhotographQuittingInnocentRepeatsPurityRealism Author:Larry Clark
“I made a mock newscast with my friend Amy. We'd set up the camera, an old VHS camcorder, and I did the sports section and interviewed my brother who pretended to be Jay Buhner... against his will, of course.” MadeCoursesSportsBrotherMy FriendsCamerasMy BrotherSectionsMockAmy Author:Charissa Thompson
“It does get frustrating having the cameras on you all the time, because if you make mistakes, then the whole world knows about it. Like, it's not just your family and friends, it's everyone. Sometimes I'll watch myself on TV and ask myself, What am I doing, I am the biggest geek. My friends will call me and say, "OMG. Have you seen that commercial of you, you look like such a nerd."” IfsKnowsWorldLooksDoeSometimesWholeAsksMistakeWatchesTvsMy FriendsCamerasWhole WorldOur FamilyMaking MistakesCall MeFamily And FriendsNerdFrustratingGeek Author:Miley Cyrus
“As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.” WritingFilmActingPaintingPhotographyMy FriendsCamerasAvailableTeenager Author:Denise Duhamel
“I try not to put anything political on the forefront of what I'm trying to do creatively. At the same time, I do think it's wonderful when I hear people say that it's inspirational that I'm an Indian woman on camera. My life is very diverse, and my friends are a diverse group of people.” PeopleThinkingTryingPoliticalLife IsWonderfulGroupsMy FriendsCamerasIndianDiverse Author:Mindy Kaling
“In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.” YearsWantedNightFatherTelevisionMy FriendsTownsCamerasProductionsStudiosTeensEditingEdits Author:Joel Osteen
“Making 'The Avengers' was very important to me, but it was also extremely arduous. I missed my friends and I missed my home, so I decided to throw them all on camera, which is the only way I seem to know to relate to people.” PeopleKnowsWayImportantHomeSeemsMy FriendsDecidedCamerasRelateAvengers Author:Joss Whedon
“When I look out [the window] at the big houses on either side of the road, it's obvious we've entered the rich side of town. Poor people don't post signs like NO TRESPASSING, PRIVATE DRIVE, PRIVATE PROPERTY, MONITORED BY CAMERA SURVEILLANCE. I should know because I've been poor my entire life, and the only person I know who ever posted a sign like these is my friend...and he actually stole the sign off a rich guy's yard.” PeopleKnowsShouldLooksPersonsBigsGuyHouseSidesPoorRichMy FriendsWindowTownsCamerasPropertyObviousPostsYardsPoor PeopleSurveillancePrivate PropertyBig HousesTrespassingSigning Off Author:Simone Elkeles
“I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.” InspirationalWellsSchoolFunnyTogetherFilmCuttingEventsMy FriendsCamerasSavedVideoStaffGraduationSporting EventsVideo CamerasYearbookDarkroomNikon Author:Dianna Agron