“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 job is the same - to attempt to make it sound like you've never said it before and as if it's just occurred to you. And that's the same whether you're on camera or whether you're on stage in a room full of people.” PeopleIfsSaidJobsSoundRoomsStageLike YouCameras Author:Bill Nighy
“An actor stands in front of a camera onstage, and he controls time and space for the audience. He tells them how long this will take, where to look, when to look, what to think about it. And good performers should be able to do their part with the sound off.” ThinkingShouldLooksLongAbleActorsSoundSpaceAudienceFrontsCamerasPerformersTime And Space Author:John Michael Higgins
“Acting is one element in a film. Directing is sort of the painter using all of those elements - sound and music and camera and putting it all together. And that can be fun and exciting. If you fail, it's incredibly upsetting - much more upsetting than when you're an actor. But when you succeed it's incredibly, incredibly exciting, so I like the risk of it all.” IfsTogetherFilmActorsFunSoundActingFailingRiskSucceedElementsExcitingCamerasPainterUpsetSound And MusicFilm Directing Author:George Clooney
“People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.” PeopleShowsSoundComedyCamerasPhonesClubsConcertsBitesSound BitesComedy Shows Author:Tracy Morgan
“You have to remain strong. That's the kind of filmmaker I want to encourage. Orson Welles was the one who said, you know, you can learn anything you need to know about filmmaking- that's camera, sound, celluloid, video at this point- in four hours. It has nothing to do with anything. It has nothing to do with it... It has to do with what you want to say. If you feel you have something to say, you'll find that way to get it said, on film, and not let anyone or anything chip away at that or tarnish it, because it's something special and precious.” IfsKnowsWayWantNeedsFeelsKindSaidFilmStrongSoundHoursFourSpecialCamerasWhat You WantVideoFilmmakerFilmmakingChipsSomething SpecialCelluloid Author:Martin Scorsese
“New video gaming systems are coming out that track every joint of your body. It's basically going to become a normal thing for us to allow Microsoft to put a three-dimensional camera on top of your television set looking at you, which sounds like a Big Brother scenario if ever I heard one, but, still, it's what we're going to allow.” IfsStillsBodyBigsThreeSoundHeardTelevisionBrotherNormalCamerasTrackYour BodyVideoComing OutJointsScenariosMicrosoftGamingNormal Things Author:Jesse Schell
“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
“This is going to sound crazy, especially in America where there is a total inflation of the word "love," but in a sense you have to love the people in front of the camera. There has to be trust between the one who is behind the camera and the people on the other side, so that they can relax. They have to feel they are safe, and that way they don't have to pretend just because they are scared.” PeopleWayFeelsAmericaSoundSidesBehindsCrazyFrontsSafeCamerasScaredRelaxInflationWords Love Author:Pirjo Honkasalo
“Well, in terms of the filming with the car, you always wanted to be on the side which the cameras weren't, because - and it sounds ridiculous, but getting in and out of that car, all in leather, in the heat, was a problem.” WellsProblemWantedSoundSidesTermCarCamerasRidiculousHeatLeather Author:Imogen Poots
“The relationship with actor and director is probably closer to theater, in that, when we record the dialogue, there is very little in the way of the creative collaboration - no cameras, lighting or even locations. Then, once we record, the post process is very similar to the post flow in filmmaking - editing, sound design, mixing, etc. At the end of the day, it's all about storytelling and honing in on a tone by developing a rhythm and structure that suits the storytelling.” WayLittlesEndsActorsProcessSoundCreativeRecordsDesignDirectorsFlowTheaterCamerasStructureDialogueStorytellingSuitsRhythmDevelopingPostsToneThe End Of The DayEtcCollaborationFilmmakingEditingLocationLightingMixingHoningSound DesignCreative Collaboration Author:Glenn McQuaid
“There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum.” IfsDoeReasonWould BeSocialSoundAttentionPhotographyDeserveCamerasAddNoiseReason WhyAppreciatedShutters Author:Bill Jay
“Basically, if you shoot your own stuff, you can just pick up a camera and some wireless microphones, grab a couple of LEDs, and you're off and running. And if you don't shoot your own stuff, you can just grab one other person to do camera and you can learn how to do the sound, and you're off and running.” IfsPersonsRunningStuffSoundCouplePicksCamerasMicrophonesWireless Author:Ramona S. Diaz
“There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.” KnowsMenSoundSpecialEffectsHairCamerasMakeupWardrobeSpecial Effects Author:Carrie Fisher
“When you are on the set, you have different departments - you got camera, sound, props, hair, makeup, catering, executives. Imagine each one of those are spokes on the wagon wheel. All the spokes come into a hub: the hub is the director. The wood the spokes go into are distribution and promotion; the steel wheel around the hub is the film. None of these have anything in common with each other.” DifferentFilmSoundCommonImagineHairDirectorsCamerasWoodsWheelsDepartmentMakeupSpokesExecutivesSteelDistributionPromotionPropsWagonsHubCateringWagon Wheels Author:Gary Busey
“Ryan Reynolds and I can be doing a scene facing the camera and somehow our back and forth and our rhythm, we know when to stop and when to volley, when to make the sound. It's like music.” KnowsI CanSoundSceneCamerasRhythmBack And ForthVolley Author:Sandra Bullock
“Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.” ShouldKindFilmYoungSoundCamerasRidiculousBest ThingsFilmmaker Author:Stanley Kubrick
“I remember the beginnings of the Kurzweil reading machine. I was one of the first to meet Ray Kurzweil and purchase the reading machine in Boston. To think that the machine was at least two and a half large suitcases at the time, and now you have a camera and it takes a picture and you have sound.” ThinkingFirstsTwoRememberReadingSoundHalfMachinesCamerasRaysBostonSuitcases Author:Stevie Wonder
“For me the noise of Time is not sad: I love bells, clocks, watches — and I recall that at first photographic implements were related to techniques of cabinetmaking and the machinery of precision: cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood.” FirstsStillsSoundWatchesSeeingCamerasWoodsTechniqueNoiseClockRelatedMechanismBellsRecallsMachineryPrecision Author:Roland Barthes
“Everywhere we walked we got plenty of attention due to the camera and sound men. The locals love to get on camera. [...] I'd seen footage of Gandhi surrounded like this and always thought it was because he was very popular, but now I wonder if it was just because he had a camera crew with him.” IfsMenSoundAttentionWonderCamerasDuesLocalsPlentyCrewVery Popular Book:An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington Source: An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
“We all know the sound a camera makes when it snaps a picture. Even some of the digitals do it for nostalgia’s sake.” KnowsSoundCamerasSakeNostalgiaSnaps Book:Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition Source: Thirteen Reasons Why 10th Anniversary Edition