“If a news camera shows up, people will line up, they want to be seen. But at the same time they want both to be chosen and not singled out. I think that is an endless struggle within most.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantShowsLinesStruggleNewsCamerasEndlessChosen Author:Celeste Ng
“If I hope to survive, I have to acknowledge the natural selection that goes on when film stocks and cameras are eliminated from the world. And film viewers won't want to watch the same thing over and over again from me.” IfsWorldWantFilmNaturalWatchesGoes OnCamerasAcknowledgeViewersSelectionNatural Selection Author:Guy Maddin
“[Brad Furman] wants to try stuff, he's willing to try stuff. And he wants electricity on the camera. And that's what I want, I want electricity whenever I'm performing.” WantTryingStuffWillingCamerasPerformingElectricityBradWilling To Try Author:John Leguizamo
“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 choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me.” WantFeelsKindRunningBehindsCamerasComplicatedRunning AwayPresentation Author:Zoe Leonard
“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
“I want to rob a bank so much - and I'm from the Midwest, so we have like one bank, no security cameras, and so I designed this thing.” WantSecurityCamerasMidwest Author:Kellan Lutz
“We needed to do "Community Project" to feel comfortable doing our own thing, and then "That's It That's All" was this experiment with camera technology and shooting snowboarding a little differently. "Art of Flight" was that dream of "That's it That's All" realized. Then we didn't want to make an "Art of Flight 2," so we stepped back and tried to take a different approach to create a more multi-faceted film. "The Fourth Phase" has more of a storyline, and it was much more personal for me.” WantFeelsLittlesArtDifferentDreamFilmCommunityTechnologyNeededComfortableProjectsApproachCamerasExperimentsFlightShootingFourthPhasesStorylineSnowboardingDifferent Approach Author:Travis Rice
“I want to be completely honest, I have to say that I love the intimacy of the camera.” WantHonestCamerasIntimacy Author:Laura Vandervoort
“I don't think I can break down any doors, but I'm thinking, "Maybe I can be a cameraman, because I love the cameras." And the cameraman would show me how to thread the film, how to repair it, the lenses. That's when you become, like, goony goo-goo about it. You breathe and eat camera, and all of a sudden, you don't want anything else in the world. You finally know, "This is my calling." When you're passionate about something, it doesn't become work. It's art and it's fun. It's arduous, it's sweaty.” ThinkingKnowsWorldWantArtI CanShowsFilmFunBreakDoorsCallingCamerasPassionateBreatheWorking ItThreadShow MeBreaking DownLensesCameraman Author:Pam Grier
“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
“I built my own studio. I don't have the professional language to describe it because I'm not a videographer - but I'm a technician. So I get the camera, I get all the things that translate the camera to the computer, I set up a live session, I do the security on it, I set up a background so I can key it out, like newscasters do, and replace it with whatever I want - and I can be anywhere I need to be.” WantNeedsI CanLanguageMy OwnSecurityKeysComputerBuiltCamerasStudiosBackgroundsTranslateSessionTechnicians Author:Edward Snowden
“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
“I love the theater, and I did tons of theater before I ever did anything in front of the camera, but I haven't done anything in New York in a while, and I really, really want to. I've been offered a few things, but it's got to be something that works, because it's so disruptive to the family that it's got to be something that I cannot turn down.” WantDoneTurnsFrontsHavensNew YorkTheaterCamerasDisruptive Author:Jean Smart
“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
“The live audience is a blind date. The camera is a hungry lover. One wants to be wined and dined and seduced and then decide where the evening will go. The other knows how it wants to be touched, wants it now and can damn well tell if you are lying about it. Both are fickle. Both feel good. Depends on your mood.” IfsKnowsWantFeelsWellsLyingAudienceKnow HowDependsLoversCamerasBlindMoodHungryFeel GoodEveningDamnTouchedFickleBlind Date Author:Bill Oberst Jr.
“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
“The script is a starting point, not a fixed highway. I must look through the camera to see if what I've written on the page is right or not. In the script, you describe imagined scenes, but it's all suspended in mid-air. Often, an actor viewed against a wall or a landscape, or seen through a window, is much more eloquent than the lines you've given him. So then you take out the lines. This happens often to me and I end up saying what I want with a movement or a gesture.” IfsWantLooksEndsHappensActorsGivenLinesWrittenAirMovementWallScenePagesWindowCamerasStartingScriptsLandscapeFixedGesturesHighwaysEloquentStarting PointSuspended Author:Michelangelo Antonioni
“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
“I don't want to try to recreate for no reason. Like, me in my bedroom, singing songs to a camera was a special thing that was at that time in my life. But I'm just not that kid. I like the format of it, but I want to be able to release things for free.” WantTryingReasonKidsAbleSongSpecialSingingCamerasLike MeReleaseNo ReasonBedroomFormatSpecial ThingsSinging Songs Author:Bo Burnham
“With modeling, you pose. You want to look your best all the time. With acting, you have to be aware of the camera, but the more you show your imperfections, the better you're going to be.” WantLooksShowsActingCamerasImperfectionModeling Author:Diane Kruger
“If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.” IfsWantUseArtistPartyPhotographyCamerasPhotographerObserversParticipating Author:Robert Mapplethorpe
“There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.” IfsWantTryingGoalCamerasGapsReviewsComplimentDiariesClosingReally CoolEdited Author:Matthew McConaughey
“At the end of the day, the TV show is the best job in the world. I get to go anywhere I want, eat and drink whatever I want. As long as I just babble at the camera, other people will pay for it. It's a gift.” PeopleWorldWantLongEndsShowsJobsPayTvsDrinkCamerasThe End Of The DayTv ShowsBest Job Author:Anthony Bourdain
“I don't know if I always want to be in front of the camera. I love producing, I love the camaraderie. I love the adventures. I love the stress.” IfsKnowsWantFrontsAdventureStressCamerasCamaraderie Author:Sandra Bullock
“He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television." "Are you and Beetee going?" I ask. "As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.” ThinkingWantYoungAsksTelevisionCamerasAttractiveCapitolHaymitch Book:The Hunger Games Trilogy Source: The Hunger Games Trilogy
“We're seniors." "I know," I said "So aren't you... curious?" "About what?" "About life. Out there. Life!" she said again. "Tell me, Cameron Ann Morgan, what do you want to be when you grow up?" We'd reached another door, and I stopped and looked up at the camera that monitored the entrance, just as I whispered, "Alive.” KnowsWantSaidGrowsGrowing UpAliveDoorsCamerasCuriousSeniorEntrancesCameronUnited We Spy Author:Ally Carter
“At times those skills were really hard to do because not only was I having to contend with the camera, but I was having to learn these new skills and the ball was always kind of doing what you didn't want it to do. So it got a little bit frustrating at times but we got there.” WantKindLittlesHardBitsSkillsLittle BitBallsCamerasHard TimesFrustratingNew Skills Author:Parminder Nagra
“There is a part of me that still wants to go out and grab a backpack and unplug - not take a cellphone or even a camera and just get out there and experience the world and travel. I have yet to do that, but someday I hope.” WorldWantStillsTravelCamerasSomedayFunny TravelCellphone Author:Emilio Estevez
“I said 'well, I'll kiss her twice, you see? We'll come around, I'll kiss her, and if you put a little more track down for the camera, then I'll put my tongue down her throat and you'll get what you want'. He said 'You think so?'” IfsThinkingWantWellsLittlesSaidKissingCamerasTrackTongueWhat You WantThroat Author:Rod Steiger
“If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid.” PeopleIfsWantKindMeanHardStoriesWould BeHouseAttentionCrazyPhotographyPaidCamerasPhotographerCuriousReasonablePlusLicenseTalk To MeGuardedMean People Author:Diane Arbus
“But there is more to a fine photograph than information. We are also seeking to present an image that arouses the curiosity of the viewer or that, best of all, provokes the viewer to think-to ask a question or simply to gaze in thoughtful wonder. We know that photographs inform people. We also know that photographs move people. The photograph that does both is the one we want to see and make. It is the kind of picture that makes you want to pick up your own camera again and go to work.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWantKindDoeMovingAsksWonderInformationFinePhotographyPicksCamerasCuriosityPhotographerPhotographSeekingThoughtfulProvokingViewers Author:Sam Abell
“I want to allow others to reveal and celebrate aspects of themselves that are usually hidden. My camera is a witness. It holds a light up for my subjects to help them feel their own essence, and gives them the courage to collaborate in the recording of these revelations.” WantGivingFeelsHelpingLightSubjectsPhotographyAspectEssenceCamerasPhotographerCelebrateWitnessRevelationsLight Up Author:Joyce Tenneson
“You find that you have to do many things, more than just lift up the camera and shoot, and so you get involved in it in a very physical way. You may find that the picture you want to do can only be made from a certain place, and you're not there, so you have to physically go there. And that participation may spur you on to work harder on the thing, . . . because in the physical change of position you start seeing a whole different relationship.” WayWantMayMadeDifferentWholeCertainSeeingPositionHard WorkInvolvedPhotographyHarderCamerasPhotographerLiftsParticipationGet InvolvedWork HarderSpursDifferent Relationships Author:Jay Maisel
“When I do work, I get so much done in such a concentrated time that once I’m through a series, I’m so drained I don’t want to get near the camera.” WantDoneCamerasSeriesDrained Author:Cindy Sherman
“I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing” ThinkingWantSidesOne DayCameras Author:Mary-Kate Olsen
“The first thing I did in the studio was to want to tear that camera to pieces. I had to know how that film got into the cutting room, what you did to it in there, how you projected it, how you finally got the picture together, how you made things match. The technical part of pictures is what interested me. Material was the last thing in the world I thought about. You only had to turn me loose on the set and I`d have material in two minutes, because I`d been doing it all my life.” KnowsWorldWantFirstsMadeTwoTogetherLastsFilmTurnsRoomsKnow HowPiecesCuttingMinutesTearsMaterialsCamerasStudiosTurn Me Author:Buster Keaton
“Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.” KnowsWayWantFilmFallStepsFrontsCamerasTrials Author:Juliette Binoche
“People want me to be funny all the time. They think I'm being funny no matter what I say or do and that's not the case. I rarely joke unless I'm in front of a camera. It's not what I am in real life. It's what I do for a living.” PeopleThinkingWantRealMatterCasesFrontsJokesCamerasNo Matter WhatReal LifeWant MeBeing Funny Author:Christopher Guest
“After I did nine years of a television series, I didn't want to do anything really that involved going to a set and being in front of a camera for quite a while. And when I did start to want to do things, I wanted to focus more on film.” WantYearsWantedFilmFocusFrontsTelevisionInvolvedCamerasSeriesNineNine Years Author:Gillian Anderson
“I am not a star. I am an actor. I have been fighting for years to make people forget that I am just a pretty boy with a beautiful face. It's a hard fight, but I will win it. I want the public to realize that above all I am an actor, a very professional one who loves every minute of being in front of the camera. But one who becomes very miserable the instant the director shouts, 'Cut!'” PeopleWantYearsHas BeensHardBeautifulFacesFightingActorsWinningStarsRealizingForgetBoysCuttingMinutesFrontsDirectorsCamerasMiserableInstantBeautiful FaceI Will WinPretty Boy Author:Alain Delon
“I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue.” WantFrontsCamerasHip HopDialogueHipsHopsHallsDisrespect Author:Pooch Hall
“I create other worlds, magical never-never lands where the camera is my weapon and the battles I fight are with the elements. i stretch the laws of the mind and displace people from their realities to capture a side of them they didn’t even know they had. Photography has the ability to freeze people in this time and space—no matter what happens after that moment, it cannot change—they are exactly how i want them to be.” PeopleKnowsWorldWantMindMatterMomentsRealityHappensLawFightingSidesAbilitySpaceLandBattleElementsPhotographyWeaponsCamerasNo Matter WhatThat MomentCaptureTime And SpaceFreezeOther WorldsNever Never Land Author:Tyler Shields
“The UN Declaration of Human Rights laid down what any person might reasonably expect, yet there are remarkably few people who enjoy these rights. With cameras in the hands of activists and meaningful distribution of those images, we will witness what really goes on in this world and hopefully want to change it.” PeopleWorldWantHumansPersonsHandsMightEnjoyRightsThis WorldGoes OnExpectationsCamerasHuman RightsMeaningfulWitnessHopefullyActivistDeclarationDistributionHuman Rights DayUnescoDeclaration Of Human Rights Author:Peter Gabriel