“There are so many cameras. There is so much instant media attention, not just for celebrities, but for normal people that get thrust in the reality world.” PeopleWorldRealityAttentionMediaNormalCamerasInstantThrust Author:Lorenzo Lamas
“I think the perception of me can be, you know, confused. But thats only because people only see that side of me when Im at work, in front of the camera. So they dont see Miranda at home; they dont see behind the scenes. They see the glamour of it all but they dont see Miranda standing barefoot in a dirty old house.” PeopleThinkingKnowsHomeHouseSidesBehindsFrontsScenePerceptionStandingCamerasDirtyConfusedBe YouGlamourBehind The ScenesBarefootOld HousesMiranda Author:Miranda Kerr
“When you stand up there and do a press conference, it's a very preoccupied moment. You're standing in front of cameras; people are watching you; it's not so easy to be at ease.” PeopleMomentsEasyFrontsStandingCamerasPressesEaseConferencesPress Conferences Author:Christine Quinn
“The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.” PeopleNeedsAnimalArmsGoes OnStandingCameras Author:David Attenborough
“I think if you'd had television cameras at Gettysburg, this would be two nations today. People would not have put up with that carnage if they saw it up close. We'd have elected McClellan in 1864.” PeopleIfsThinkingTwoWould BeTodayNationsSawsMediaTelevisionCamerasCarnageGettysburgTwo NationsMcclellan Author:George Will
“Some people like doing crossword puzzles or Sudoku. I love auditioning. On camera, I hated auditioning. But voiceovers I like trying to figure it out, then getting in there and seeing how close you can get.” PeopleTryingSeeingFiguresCamerasHatedPuzzlesCrosswords Author:Tom Kenny
“People over the age of thirty were born before the digital revolution really started. We've learned to use digital technology-laptops, cameras, personal digital assistants, the Internet-as adults, and it has been something like learning a foreign language. Most of us are okay, and some are even expert. We do e-mails and PowerPoint, surf the Internet, and feel we're at the cutting edge. But compared to most people under thirty and certainly under twenty, we are fumbling amateurs. People of that age were born after the digital revolution began. They learned to speak digital as a mother tongue.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensUseAgeMotherSpeakLanguageBornTechnologyCuttingRevolutionInternetAdultsOkayTwentiesCamerasEdgesTongueThirtyExpertsDigitalMailAssistantsSurfLaptopsForeign LanguageCutting EdgeMother TongueDigital TechnologyPowerpointDigital Revolution Author:Ken Robinson
“I'm not a big fan of 'Jersey Shore' and those kinds of shows where people are really playing up to the cameras.” PeopleKindShowsBigsFansCamerasShoreJerseyJersey ShorePlaying Up Author:Chris Lilley
“I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect people the way they affect me. I don't even need to be in them.” PeopleWayNeedsDreamBehindsEatingCamerasSevenProducersMealsTacos Author:Emma Stone
“People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen.” PeopleCamerasSizeShootingIsolatedSequenceNolanVolkswagens Author:Steven Soderbergh
“Even if people are all from the same place, there can be very, very different approaches. It's one of the things I'm fascinated by. It's why I like directing. I like to see how different people approach trying to be truthful, on camera or in the theater, and whether you can make them match up.” PeopleIfsTryingDifferentApproachTheaterCamerasFascinatedTruthfulDifferent PeoplesBeing TruthfulDifferent Approach Author:Kenneth Branagh
“The only thing I can definitely say is that you cease to be self-conscious after you've had to kiss somebody on-camera with 30 people watching.” PeopleI CanSelfKissingConsciousCamerasCeaseSelf Conscious Author:Anna Paquin
“I never envisioned myself being a film star at all. Most people know that pro wrestling is a little bit of an accident for me. I never really had any real aspirations of being in front of a camera.” PeopleKnowsLittlesRealFilmStarsBitsFrontsLittle BitCamerasAccidentsAspirationWrestlingFilm StarsPro Wrestling Author:Roddy Piper
“I like to try to shoot in the city in a way that allows the city to go about its business while we're shooting, and that's always a challenge because unfortunately people on the street don't know not to look in the camera or interact with the actors.” PeopleKnowsWayTryingLooksActorsChallengesCitiesStreetsCamerasShooting Author:Noah Baumbach
“Being just an actor, sometimes people are like, "Hey, man, we don't wanna see you no more, in front of the camera," and I don't want that.” PeopleMenWantSometimesActorsFrontsCamerasHey Author:Jamie Foxx
“I know people who are embarrassed to be American. They don't like showing their passports. It's becoming a scary place. It takes someone very brave not to be quiet, someone who doesn't mind death threats, their life being turned upside down, news cameras outside their door. There is no freedom of speech in America anymore. They are not living up to the constitution. There's so much fear in America and control.” PeopleKnowsMindAmericaDoorsBecomingQuietSpeechNewsConstitutionCamerasBraveThreatScaryFreedom Of SpeechEmbarrassedUpside DownPassports Author:Gillian Anderson
“There's been a lot of talk about body cameras as a silver bullet or a solution. I think the task force concluded that there is a role for technology to play in building additional trust and accountability, but it's not a panacea, it has to be embedded in a broader change in culture and a legal framework that ensures that people's privacy is respected and that not only police officers but the community themselves feel comfortable with how technologies are being used.” PeopleThinkingFeelsPlayBodyUsedCultureForceChangeCommunityRolesTechnologyBuildingComfortableSolutionsTasksPoliceCamerasPrivacySilverAccountabilityOfficersBulletsFrameworkPolice OfficerEmbeddedPanaceaTask ForcesSilver Bullets Author:Barack Obama
“For the most part, improvising while cameras are rolling is very difficult. 99% of people you should never ask to do that, because they're under pressure, the clock is running, 80 people are staring at you...it's always unnatural.” PeopleShouldRunningAsksDifficultPressureCamerasClockStaringRollingUnnaturalUnder PressureImprovisingStaring At You Author:Albert Brooks
“The truth is I've always been a Christian. What's amazing, is that the flaws that come with Christianity are really weird, because mine have a microphone and a camera attached to them. Most people don't have to live under that microscope.” PeopleChristianChristianityMinesTruth IsCamerasFlawsMicrophonesMicroscopesReally Weird Author:Steve Harvey
“The image isn't just created with the camera. That's just part one. The editor gets an imprint. The colorist does something to it. Visual effects does something to it. It's not just what you capture that people are going to see. The image gets made in many ways. In production and then in post.” PeopleWayDoeMadeEffectsCamerasProductionsPostsVisualsEditorsCaptureVisual Effects Author:Christopher Kenneally
“Improvisation, for me, is when the cameras start rolling, we don't know where we're going and let's just waste people's time and money.” PeopleKnowsWasteCamerasRollingImprovisationTime And Money Author:Jason Bateman
“The whole thing about working in front of the camera is to make people laugh when they're not supposed to.” PeopleWholeLaughingFrontsCamerasMaking People Laugh Author:Zach Galifianakis
“I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.” PeopleFirstsHumansRealHappensJobsActorsHuman BeingsSawsFrontsReturnBecomingDirectorsPerformancesCamerasAuthenticityFreezeNewcomers Author:Steven Spielberg
“I think nowadays people are so used taking the camera to the family picnic - so people are less surprised by films made of them, like home movies.” PeopleThinkingMadeHomeFilmUsedCamerasPicnics Author:D. A. Pennebaker
“The biggest mistake I made was not having a full-time producer. I was securing locations and wardrobe and making sure people get called to show up on time and getting the film to the lab and getting the camera, and all this stuff that I'm happy to do, but if I'm doing every little thing, I'm not concentrating on my story. So it never gets any better than the script.” PeopleIfsLittlesMadeStoriesShowsFilmStuffMistakeCamerasScriptsProducersLittle ThingsLocationWardrobeLabsConcentratingBiggest Mistake Author:Shane Carruth
“As a comedian, I can walk out in front of 5000 people and not worry about a thing. Not a thing, believe me. But to stand up a face a camera and crew of maybe 15 guys and get up tight about it - to me that's weird.” PeopleBelieveI CanFacesGuyWalksWorryFrontsCamerasGet UpComedianBelieve In MeCrew Author:Bill Cosby
“Everybody has a camera on their phone these days, everybody wants a selfie or a picture, and the moment one person starts taking a picture everybody congregates around so I've become quite a fast walker. I don't like saying, "No," to people but by walking fast one might be able to avoid the first photo.” PeopleWantFirstsPersonsMomentsMightAbleWalkingCamerasPhonesThese DaysSaying NoWalkersWalking Fast Author:Richard Branson
“The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it back against my chest, but still continued to photograph the re-entry until there was no more unusual visual effects of the energy in the atmosphere. And it was very comforting to understand that the people in Houston, the controllers, had very high confidence that we were on the right path.” PeopleStillsAbleEnergyForcePathEffectsWindowCamerasLaysPhotographAtmosphereVisualsChestsUnusualComfortingEntryRight PathHoustonControllersVisual EffectsRe EntryG Force Author:Buzz Aldrin
“The upsides of acting in things is mostly getting your hair done and having people give you clothes. So as long as you can have a little bit of that in your life, then it's just as delightful to be behind camera.” PeopleGivingLittlesLongDoneBitsActingBehindsHairLittle BitClothesCamerasDelightful Author:Tina Fey
“I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be.” PeopleWellsAsksWaitingFrontsMaterialsCameras Author:Larenz Tate
“I've got the luxury of being able to work largely alone, so I don't need to communicate difficult creative classeas to other people and can leave the whole thing in my head or on scattered notes and sketches that only I need to understand. So I can very radically and quickly change things as I go without tripping anybody else up. And the camera allows me to experiment and try new things on the fly.” PeopleNeedsTryingI CanWholeAbleDifficultCreativeCamerasNotesCommunicateExperimentsLuxuryNew ThingsTripping Author:Don Hertzfeldt
“The cinema camera doesn't make movies; it allows movies to be made. It's the creative people who make it real to people.” PeopleMadeRealCreativeCamerasMade ItCinemaCreative People Author:Ivan Sutherland
“Things like dating, family, and friends are just so valuable to me and I didn't want to put any strain on any of those relationships and you can see how the cameras around people can make people a little bit loopy. I didn't want to bring that into my life.” PeopleWantLittlesBitsLittle BitDatingCamerasValuableFamily And FriendsStrain Author:Whitney Port
“You don't know if the actors are going to have chemistry until you actually start filming. They can get along, they can be friends for years, they can be hilarious as people, but you don't know if it'll actually work until the cameras start rolling.” PeopleIfsKnowsYearsActorsCamerasChemistryRolling Author:Anne Fletcher
“Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot.” PeopleDifferentStreetsGrewGrew UpCamerasInspiredVideoDifferent ThingsRiotLettermanVideo CamerasRockefeller Center Author:Tom Green
“Sometimes you find people who are magnetic, but once they get in front of a camera, they freak out and get weird.” PeopleSometimesFrontsCamerasFreakMagnetic Author:Grimes
“I like being behind the camera because I can control perception and what people see.” PeopleI CanBehindsPerceptionCamerasBecause I Can Author:Grimes
“Dreamland Studios then was my bedroom at my parents' house, mostly [starring] people who were in my high school. They look straight at the camera; they're uncomfortable doing it. So, are [early movies] good? No.” PeopleLooksSchoolHouseParentHigh SchoolCamerasStudiosUncomfortableBedroomDreamland Author:John Waters
“3D needs a trained eye. It can't be done by everybody. People who just do 3D just for the sake of commercializing their movie another five or six percent and they don't know really how to do it, they should care how to do it better by bringing other directors and collaborators into their lives to help teach and instruct how you really make a 3D movie because it's not just like putting a new lens on a camera and forgetting it. It takes a lot of very careful consideration. It will change your approach to where you put the cameras. So, 3D isn't for everybody.” PeopleKnowsNeedsShouldDoneHelpingEyeCareForgetTeachFiveDirectorsSixApproachPercentCamerasSakeCarefulConsiderationLensesCollaborators Author:Steven Spielberg
“This is the funny thing about Skype. No one is really looking into the camera. People always looking down because they're looking at the image. You wish the camera was there in the center.” PeopleWishCamerasFunny ThingsLooking DownSkype Author:Stanley Tucci
“My family is just embarrassingly proud of me. My brothers get a little protective... overly protective. I've made rules now where I say: "You can't go outside and scream at people if they have cameras!"” PeopleIfsLittlesMadeBrotherProudMy FamilyCamerasMy BrotherScreamProtectiveProud Of Me Author:Kristen Stewart
“Some people come up to be directors by coming through the camera department and there's not a lot of women in the camera department. The ones that are have to kind of prove they're one of the boys, I think. I don't want to get into trouble with generalisations but I think it's a fair observation.” PeopleThinkingWantKindBoysTroubleDirectorsProveFairsCamerasCome UpObservationDepartmentGeneralisation Author:Colin Firth
“Everybody can take a good picture. Everybody is interesting. Everyone has an interesting face. Some people are more difficult or more nervous or more tired. When you do a movie, you have action, you're talking, you're moving. You don't see the camera. Taking a picture with a photographer, you don't talk, it's more difficult than in a movie for your body to relax, to be yourself.” PeopleBodyActionFacesMovingDifficultInterestingTalkingCamerasTiredPhotographerYour BodyNervousBeing YourselfRelax Author:Keira Knightley
“I lived through being pooh-poohed by fine art galleries, saying, "Digital is going to destroy the meaning behind photos." The motion side, the moment all of the cameras come alive with that motion, it was like a dream come true. It enables people to economically experiment with film.” PeopleArtMomentsDreamFilmSidesBehindsAliveFineCamerasExperimentsDigitalDreams Come TrueGalleryFine ArtsArt Galleries Author:Russell James
“Being on the road, the Internet enables me to interact with people in some way. It's not so much interacting with my fans - it's about doing something with what I have. I have my camera and I have my computer, and if I have some spare time, rather than watching some mindless bullshit pop-idol program on TV, why not show people my pictures and try and discuss things that I feel are important?” PeopleIfsWayFeelsTryingImportantShowsFansTvsInternetComputerProgramCamerasPopsWhy NotIdolsBullshitSparesMindlessInteractingSpare Time Author:Lily Allen
“People are expecting me to be a certain way all the time. It's not like if I come in here with a totally different personality and right before the camera starts they see this new character. It confuses everything. Life has a consensus reality to it and if you use that to your advantage it makes it much easier.” PeopleIfsWayDifferentCharacterUseRealityCertainPersonalityEasierAdvantageCamerasExpectingConsensus Author:Richard Gere
“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
“If some magic thing happens, and everybody goes completely nuts, and does something we never thought of, the cameras catch everything. That comes from having camera people who are almost like actors and writers themselves.” PeopleIfsDoeHappensActorsMagicCamerasThings HappenNuts Author:Paul Feig
“That's what I love about the mockumentary style, is the added thing of people knowing they are on-camera, which changes your behavior. That's why we sometimes do what we call spy shots.” PeopleSometimesKnowingStyleBehaviorShotsCamerasSpy Author:Paul Feig
“I'm used to being behind a camera. That's much more natural for me. But if my life can inspire people, that's what I have to do. My idea is to be of service.” PeopleIfsIdeasUsedNaturalBehindsInspireCameras Author:Zana Briski