“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
“Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.” MomentsActorsCamerasScreensThat Moment Author:Alfred Molina
“I existed before Star Trek. I started in live television. I was there when the cameras were as big as a table, had internal fans that were whirring and tubes that, because of the heat, had to come right up to our face for a close-up. Now, we are talking about green screen and putting us in locations that we'll never visit. What has happened to us is a miracle, and the miracle is our inventiveness. The tragedy of our lives is also our inventiveness.” BigsFacesLife IsStarsTalkingOur LivesHappenedFansTelevisionMiracleTragedyCamerasTablesGreenScreensHeatInternalsLocationTubesInventivenessLive Television Author:William Shatner
“I also, since we have digital cameras, the blue screen composites are so good that I would rather shoot on a stage than there, especially the complicated sequences. The sun never sets in a studio stage.” SunStageCamerasBlueStudiosComplicatedScreensDigitalSequenceCompositesDigital Cameras Author:Roland Emmerich
“I think what I loved in cinema - and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema - are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized - and, dare I say, theatrical - on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.” ThinkingFeelsMeanMomentsFilmCan DoFocusStageLike YouIntegrityTheaterCamerasIntentionExtraordinaryDareScreensCinemaIntensityTheatricalViewpointsCan Do SomethingExtraordinary Moments Author:Benedict Cumberbatch
“I thought all I had to do was to buy a camera and become a film director. So when I left school I worked at a telephone company, which gave me the money to buy the basic equipment including the camera, the projector and the screen.” SchoolFilmLeftCompanyDirectorsCamerasIncludingScreensEquipmentTelephonesFilm DirectorsProjectors Author:Jean-Pierre Jeunet
“I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise.” IfsShouldCharacterHandsRealityLightFeltSoundCamerasAvailableScreensSuitsPilotsSplitsCrewDocumentariesPremises Author:Stephen Hopkins
“I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen.” MenWantEffortToo MuchSpecialEffectsFrontsHe ManInvolvedHappeningsCamerasSurfaceScreensGet InvolvedSpecial Effects Author:Steve McQueen
“Film, television, and working with a camera is such an intimate art form that if a camera is right on you, and I've got your face filling the screen, you have to be real. If you do anything that is fake, you're not going to get away with it, because the camera is right there, and the story is being told in a very real way.” IfsWayArtRealStoriesFilmFacesFormTelevisionCamerasScreensFakeIntimateGet AwayYour FaceBeing RealFilling Author:Paul Feig
“I realized that my camera work could help me in a lot of ways to put the audience in the driver's seat, so to speak, to get them in there with the action, and to get them as close and be as intimate with what was going on on-screen as possible.” WayHelpingActionSpeakAudienceCamerasScreensI RealizedIntimateSeatsHelp MeDrivers Author:James Wan
“On screen, we have to pretend we hate each other, or dislike each other, or don't want to talk or listen to each other, but off camera, it's just one big happy family. We hang out off the show and we play cards together and go have dinner together.” WantPlayShowsBigsTogetherHateCamerasDinnerScreensCardsJust OneHanging OutDislikeHappy Family Author:Emilio Rivera
“The challenge and the goal was to get inside Owen's [Suskind] world, because I really wanted to see it through his point of view. To achieve that naturalism, I used a screen in front of a camera as I interviewed him” WorldWantedUsedGoalChallengesViewsAchieveFrontsCamerasPoint Of ViewScreensNaturalism Author:Roger Ross Williams
“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
“The fact that there aren't an abundance of African-American males that are getting lead roles [and] that are getting roles that have prominence on the big screen. [It's] the same thing from behind the camera; maybe even worse. Coming up, when you're black and you want to direct somebody says, "Oh, you're Spike Lee" or "You're John Singleton."” WantFactsBigsBlackBehindsRolesDirectCamerasMalesScreensAfrican AmericanAbundanceBig ScreenProminence Author:Michael B. Jordan
“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
“There's something very scary about exposing yourself on camera, knowing that you're going to be put on thousands of screens around the world for everyone to judge, but there's also something very thrilling and exciting about it.” WorldKnowingJudgingExcitingCamerasScaryScreensAround The WorldThrillingExposingExposing Yourself Author:Eli Roth
“Surely it wasn't possible that Vin diPietro was the first assignment. "Hello?" DiPietro waved. "You in there?" Nah, Jim thought. Can't be. That would be above and beyond any call of duty. Over the guy's shoulder, the commercial that was on the TV suddenly showed a price of $49.99-no, $29.99, with a little red arrow that ... considering where Vin was standing, poined right at his head. "Sh*t, no" Jim muttered. This was the guy? On the Tv screen, some woman in a pink bathrobe smiled up at the camera and mouthed, Yes, it is!” FirstsLittlesWould BeGuyTvsDutyRedStandingCamerasScreensShouldersConsideringHelloArrowsAssignmentsCall Of DutyAbove And Beyond Author:J.R. Ward
“Yes, they have to have a victor. Without a victor, the whole thing would blow up in the Gamemakers' faces. They'd have failed the Capitol. Might possibly even be executed, slowly and painfully, while the cameras broadcast it to every screen in the country.” CountryWholeMightFacesCamerasBlowScreensCapitol Book:The Hunger Games Source: The Hunger Games
“Kai neared his desk again, seeing that the fugitive's profile had been transferred to the screen. His frown deepened. Perhaps not dangerous, but young and inarguably good-looking. His prison photo showed him flippantly winking at the camera. Kai hated him immediately.” YoungSeeingDangerousCamerasPrisonScreensHatedDesksLooking GoodProfileFugitiveWinking Author:Marissa Meyer
“I don't really diet or anything. I'm miserable when I'm dieting and I like the way I look. I'm really sick of all these actresses looking like birds I'd rather look a little chubby on camera and look like a person in real life, than look great on screen and look like a scarecrow in real life.” WayLooksLittlesPersonsRealBirdSickCamerasActressesScreensReal LifeMiserableDietsDietingScarecrow Author:Jennifer Lawrence
“Zoe Saldana is such an angel. She’s got such an openness and vulnerability on camera and yet such great strength. She can kick ass with the best of them, but then she can soften and open up in a way that is magnetizing whether you’re watching her on set or on screen – she’s got a real power to her. I love her; we’ve known each other for years and it’s great to come back to that kind of familiarity, especially when you’re working with such intimacy.” WayYearsKindRealKnownAngelCamerasScreensAssIntimacyVulnerabilityKicksOpennessFamiliarityReal PowerKick Ass Author:Zachary Quinto