“Most times you do a movie every place except for what the camera sees is just a mess with the lights, people, and cameras so you get used to it. There is no way to shut that out, there is always a constant reminder of how many people it takes, what is going on and how many elements that goes into making this scene look right.” PeopleWayLooksLightUsedSceneElementsCamerasConstantMessReminders Author:Jeremy Sisto
“I wanted the camera to actually observe the people who come from the outside to live inside a country, instead of fantasizing about them. Also, I wanted to say the sum of who we become is thanks to the people we meet. I wanted to make a positive film.” PeopleCountryWantedFilmCamerasThanks Author:Danielle Arbid
“The idea of somebody being a fan of something I can totally understand. The idea of being followed around by cameras or people taking pictures of you eating a hamburger, I kind of have trouble even imaging it.” PeopleKindI CanIdeasTroubleFansEatingCamerasHamburgersTaking PicturesImaging Author:Rachelle Lefevre
“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
“I seem to walk in the world as two people. The normal everyday-me is as preoccupied, unobservant and oblivious to visual clues as I ever was. Then there is the photographer-me, the one who has a camera in hand and a specific project in mind, and then the world suddenly jumps to life with potential pictures, as if a switch had been thrown in my brain and a different person is looking out of the same eyes.” PeopleIfsWorldMindPersonsTwoDifferentHandsSeemsEyeWalksBrainNormalProjectsPhotographyCamerasEverydayPhotographerVisualsThrownClueOblivious Author:Bill Jay
“I think a bigger difference with social media is going to be things like the impact Instagram will have for historians. For the longest time, we had no images of the past. And then when we had the advent of the camera, we had a record of the things people chose to photograph, which, for a while, were portraits of your family, a new building we built, or a really big horse. Well now we have images of everything. That will be the biggest difference I think - that we will have a visual record of this reality in a way that will be completely covered.” PeopleThinkingWayWellsBigsRealityPastSocialDifferencesRecordsMediaBuildingBuiltBiggerHorseCamerasImpactPhotographSocial MediaOur FamilyVisualsCoveredHistorianPortraitsInstagramAdvent Author:Chuck Klosterman
“Everything you see comes from inside. People don't see it but inside the dressing room we laugh and joke a lot so it's not just for the cameras. It's the way things are off the pitch too. We are happy for each other, it is all natural.” PeopleWayNaturalRoomsLaughingJokesCamerasDressingsDressing Rooms Author:Luis Suarez
“I have received the digital camera as a blessing. It has really changed my life as a filmmaker, because I don't use my camera anymore as a camera. I don't feel it as a camera. I feel it as a friend, as something that doesn't make an impression on people, that doesn't make them feel uncomfortable, and that is completely forgotten in my way of approaching life and people and film.” PeopleWayFeelsUseFilmChangedBlessingCamerasForgottenImpressionMy WayUncomfortableFilmmakerDigitalChanged My LifeDigital CamerasApproaching Life Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“When you're the guy behind the camera, you're aware of the reasons for the compromises or the changes that get made. As an actor, you go and do your thing, and someone else down the line then does all the math and goes, "We can't include that thing where he's pretending to be dumb and needling those people, because it takes a minute and a half, and it ruins the next scene. It doesn't make sense." If you're directing, you're the one doing that.” PeopleIfsDoeMadeReasonGuyNextActorsLinesBehindsHalfMinutesSceneCamerasMathCompromiseRuinsDumbMake SensePretending Author:Casey Affleck
“I have to show who I am, play with the crowd, play with the camera. When people come to a race, part of it is the anticipation, "What is he going to do?"” PeoplePlayShowsRaceCamerasCrowdsWho I AmAnticipation Author:Usain Bolt
“There's this thing that's come about that wasn't there when I started acting which is they do this thing called a chemistry test. They put a camera in front of two people, it's usually a boy and a girl, and they go, [whispering]. It's impossible. You can't manufacture it or film it, it just has to happen.” PeopleTwoHappensFilmGirlActingBoysImpossibleFrontsTestsCamerasChemistryWhispering Author:Cillian Murphy
“It seemed to work on camera. And there's very few films - because you make a lot of films and you meet people and you work very intensely and intimately and then you're gone - but there's a few where you actually make friends, and this [The Fall] was one.” PeopleFilmFallGoneCameras Author:Cillian Murphy
“I first discovered YouTube while browsing the web, and then I found people just talking into their cameras. I never even knew it was a thing you could do.” PeopleFirstsFoundTalkingCamerasYoutubeBrowsing Author:Tyler Oakley
“I'm always going to hear people make that connection and I've just accepted it. It's alright. I'm just happy that I get to do my own thing now. I learned a lot from the show [the Voice] as far as being in the TV world and being in front of the camera, which is really great because I'm not as nervous in front of the camera as I was before.” PeopleWorldShowsVoiceMy OwnFrontsTvsConnectionsCamerasAcceptedNervousReally GreatAlright Author:Melanie Martinez
“I think people are wrong to do it, to compare him to your way of wanting to do it. If you're passionate about it, do it and do it your way. It's not always going to be in front of the cameras after a football game - that was the way I did it. Somebody else has a different way, and that's [James] LeBron, and I know who he is. And I can't get into specifics, but it did upset me that people were calling him out for that because they were just wrong.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayI CanDifferentGamesFrontsFootballCallingCamerasPassionateCompareUpsetDifferent WaysFootball GameSpecifics Author:Andrew Hawkins
“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
“I feel like if I started to use it [camera] that way, it would be like a sin almost. I never show people ugly pictures I take of them. I usually destroy them. So even if I like it, and they don't, it doesn't get shown.” PeopleIfsWayFeelsUseShowsWould BeSinCamerasUgly Author:Nan Goldin
“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
“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
“I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.” PeopleWayWholeProcessHollywoodCamerasMythDramaticInterpretationSuspiciousDon't Trust Author:Wayne White
“I have some sort of performing gene that's just there and I cannot explain it but I want to connect with people through a camera or on a stage. I just can do it. I just have an intuitive sense of it. So I love doing that, I love going into that trance.” PeopleWantCan DoStageCamerasPerformingGenesIntuitiveTrance Author:Wayne White
“It's hard any time people are sitting down and looking at you across a camera and saying, "I believe that you guys will tell my story faithfully." That's getting to the core principle of being a journalist or a documentarian where people trust you with their stories.” PeopleBelieveHardStoriesGuyI BelievePrinciplesSittingDown AndCamerasCoreJournalistSitting Down Author:Brian McGinn
“I both didn't know Owen [Suskind] beforehand and didn't have any connection to the autistic community. But Owen wasn't really a problem, because he participated in the writing of the book and wanted people to see him as he truly is. As far as the cameras, Owen lives in the moment and the cameras really didn't distract him.” PeopleKnowsWritingBookMomentsProblemWantedCommunityConnectionsCamerasLive In The MomentAutistic Author:Roger Ross Williams
“There are photos of Kim Jong-un right up atop the volcano. I actually wrote a letter to him asking if I could speak on camera. I never got an answer. But what was interesting was the people who were responsible for us, our "guards," it took them two days to figure out how I should address him. "President? No, you can't because there's a president for eternity." And it was a time when his status was still in flux. Only a few months later there was this party congress which assigned an official title to him, but that was after we did our film.” PeopleIfsShouldStillsTwoFilmSpeakPresidentAnswersInterestingPartyFiguresMonthsLettersEternityAskingResponsibleCamerasCongressTitlesOfficialsIf I CouldAddressesTwo DaysKimFluxVolcanoes Author:Werner Herzog
“About 10 minutes [into the dinner] my sister texted me and said, "Maria, I just wanted to let you know that you're on TV live. You're front and center." I thought, 'Oh God, I'm right behind Donald Trump and in the camera shot. After that I stopped moving. I just sat there. It was funny. I was delighted that people noticed my white gloves. It was a white tie dinner, for the dais you had to be in white tie. If I can't channel my best Sophia Loren glamour for a white tie affair, when can I? I thought it was an excellent opportunity to wear the white gloves.” PeopleIfsKnowsSaidI CanWantedMovingOpportunityWhiteBehindsMinutesFrontsTvsTrumpShotsCamerasAffairDinnerExcellentTiesSatMy SisterGlamourDelightedGlovesSophia Author:Maria Bartiromo
“You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.” PeopleKindLightCertainMarkCamerasBlock Author:Judd Nelson
“I didn't even know what acting was at 11 years old. I truly believed that acting was hidden cameras everywhere. And I felt that these actors on the screen were somehow real people.” PeopleKnowsYearsRealActorsFeltActingCamerasScreens Author:Masiela Lusha
“How are these people deserving huge payouts for losing weight when they should have done it without the camera or without a team helping them? Then, six months later you go back and find out where they are, and they're in a worse state than they were in before they joined the f - ing show. Then they blame the producer.” PeopleShouldStatesDoneHelpingShowsTeamHugeMonthsSixLosingShould HaveWeightCamerasBlameProducersSix MonthsDeserving Author:Gordon Ramsay
“Kathie Lee [Gifford] invited me to come to New York for lunch with her - and surprised with an unexpected shout out again for One Thousand Gifts on the show and graciously asked a few questions on camera. Indebted to her and the people who read and looked for Jesus in the pages and shared the hope and joy of Him - right where they are.” PeopleShowsJoyJesusNew YorkThousandPagesCamerasUnexpectedLunchInvitedIndebtedShout OutOne Thousand Gifts Author:Ann Voskamp
“In a lot of ways I look at these old photos, and I don't know if I would have been able to communicate with these people on this level if I didn't have a camera. I think I would still be so shy.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsWayLooksHas BeensStillsAbleLevelsCamerasCommunicateShy Author:Ryan McGinley
“Like, she had a caterer, she had wardrobe people, she had two makeup artists... I mean, we have makeup and we have wardrobe, but Felicia [Day] was, like, on it. She had two cameras operating, sets, extras everywhere. It was unbelievable. I don't know what her budget was or is, but she had sponsors for her show, and we don't have a sponsor yet, so basically, the difference is, our moms make our costumes.” PeopleKnowsMeanTwoShowsArtistDifferencesMomCamerasBudgetsExtrasMakeupCostumesUnbelievableWardrobeSponsorsMakeup Artist Author:Brent Spiner
“People tend to relax when they're off camera. That's when they should be working the hardest.” PeopleShouldCamerasHardestRelax Author:Denzel Washington
“Yume is a no-nonsense dog. There are many people here, with camcorders running, lights shining and cameras clicking. She is being a guard dog.” PeopleLightRunningDogCamerasShiningNonsenseNo NonsenseGuard Dogs Author:Vladimir Putin
“If I was at the Comedy Cellar at midnight you yelled at the back of the room. But you, for television, play it to the camera because yes you're communicating to the people at home using the studio audience that's right in front of you as a guide for that.” PeopleIfsPlayHomeRoomsAudienceComedyFrontsTelevisionCamerasCommunicateStudiosGuidesMidnightCellars Author:John Mulaney
“That was an interesting thing I learned I think the first time I did a late night show or something. It was like, "Oh, this is for the camera and a performance that you're giving to the people at home."” PeopleThinkingGivingFirstsShowsHomeNightInterestingLateFirst TimePerformancesCamerasInteresting ThingsLate Night Author:John Mulaney
“I remember when someone told me phones were going to have cameras on them, and I thought that was the dumbest idea I'd ever heard. Why would you want a camera on your phone? But as we see the impact of it, it has allowed for a mass verification of what black people have been saying.” PeopleWantHas BeensIdeasRememberBlackHeardMassCamerasImpactPhonesBlack PeopleRemember WhenVerification Author:Arthur Jafa
“In the age of the camera phone it's a bit weird when you're sitting having dinner in a restaurant and people think they're being very subtle taking a photo while in fact they're being very obvious. When you're in a middle of a mouthful with friends or family and people come up asking for a photograph, that's when you want to say, 'Actually, I'm going to say no; I'd like to finish my meal. This is my time.'” PeopleThinkingWantFactsAgeBitsMiddleSittingAskingCamerasPhotographPhonesCome UpObviousDinnerMealsMy TimeRestaurantsSubtle Author:Hugh Bonneville
“Newshounds are people with mini-video cameras, people who are continually taking pictures in the street and sending the tapes in to CNN. These Newshounds are a sort of pack of wolves, continually looking for quarry, but quarry in the form of images.” PeopleFormStreetsCamerasVideoTapePacksCnnTaking PicturesVideo CamerasQuarryPacks Of Wolves Author:Paul Virilio
“I actually have come to believe that if people were more connected to their fellow human beings, if we all felt more centred and fulfilled in our lives, maybe we would be pointing our cameras at a lot less social ills.” PeopleIfsBelieveHumansWould BeSocialFeltHuman BeingsOur LivesCamerasFellowsConnectedFulfilledPointing Author:Joe Berlinger
“Kids want to be professional footballers and I think they need to know what it takes to get there - you know, the dedication. People see footballers playing on a Saturday afternoon in front of the TV cameras, but from a Monday to Friday people don't really see what goes on.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantNeedsKidsFrontsTvsGoes OnCamerasAfternoonDedicationSaturdayMondayFridayFootballerSaturday Afternoon Author:John Terry
“It's true that I don't think I'd be a good director. If I were a director, I'd try to hire the best people I could and then leave them alone. I don't know much about cameras or lighting, so I'd make sure that I had a really good cameraman who understood lenses and lighting, and I say to him, "This is the scene we have to shoot and this is what I think it should be, you go do it." Same with actors. But really, very good directors who know everything do basically the same thing. They hire you and then they leave you alone.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsShouldTryingActorsSceneDirectorsUnderstoodCamerasVery GoodBe YouLensesLightingGood DirectorsCameraman Author:Christopher Walken
“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
“You don't need 70 people in a White House press conference to tell people what happened there. You need a camera and maybe a couple reporters, and that's it.” PeopleNeedsHouseWhiteHappenedCoupleCamerasPressesWhite HouseReportersConferencesPress Conferences Author:Rush Limbaugh
“A good filmmaker is someone who can look at a piece and go, "This camera's really going to be a character. I want people to feel like they're being punched."” PeopleWantFeelsLooksCharacterPiecesCamerasFilmmaker Author:Bill Paxton
“When I'm on stage, I feel like a performer for sure. I know people are looking at me and taking pictures. That part's wonderful. But, I live the most boring life away from what you see me on camera doing. The other 300 days out of the year I'm just the most normal person in the universe. I'm a wife. I'm a mother to my doggies. I'm a maid - I clean the house.” PeopleKnowsFeelsYearsPersonsMotherUniverseHouseWifeWonderfulStageNormalCamerasCleanBoringPerformersMaidsTaking PicturesBoring Life Author:Carrie Underwood
“I've been working in Hollywood for a long time now in many different aspects in front of the camera, behind the camera, and I've worked with top executives, presidents of networks. I've worked all around. I see energy and what's around these studios and a lot of these offices. You don't get the high positions in these companies if you don't take advantage of other people in some way. I've seen that around. I've seen that around the studios, whether it's producers or whoever. Egos are there. Greed.” PeopleIfsWayLongDifferentEnergyPresidentBehindsCompanyFrontsPositionEgoOfficeLong TimeAdvantageAspectHollywoodCamerasGreedStudiosProducersExecutives Author:James Van Praagh
“The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you see that character portrayed up on screen, there is the work certainly of the actor, but there's the work of the editor, there's the work of what the camera was doing. What the music was doing, all of the above.” PeopleCharacterActorsResultsTruth IsPerformancesCamerasScreensEditors Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“Usually people in the acting business end up both in front of and behind the camera. Working for so long in the business, I know how it works. It's not too much of a challenge; the challenge is making it all come together, being in charge of a huge team of people that you trust.” PeopleKnowsLongEndsTogetherChallengesActingBehindsKnow HowToo MuchTeamFrontsHugeCamerasWorking It Author:Dustin Diamond
“To be honest, everyone thinks that a digital camera is more reliable and every single time I work on any movie, it's just as many problems, the memory card doesn't work or blah blah blah, it overheats; it's the same volume as another camera. I think people are bit taken in by it.” PeopleThinkingProblemBitsMemoriesTakenHonestCamerasCardsBeing HonestDigitalVolumeBlahDigital Cameras Author:Robert Pattinson
“There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.” PeopleInspirationalTwoLightCreativityPhotographyCamerasPhotographerPhotographAdamViewersPhotography By PhotographersInspirational PhotographyGreat PhotographyCamera And PhotographyInspiring PhotographyLandscape PhotographyDigital PhotographyFilm PhotographyPhotography And FilmPhotography And LightAmazing BeautifulAmerican Landscape Author:Ansel Adams