“That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.” IfsWantLooksActingModernCamerasBoredElsewhere Author:Stephen Rea
“Modern technology has conveniently provided a measuring stick by which you can determine whether or not you are conducting your business in an acceptable, ethical way. . . . You can ask yourself: How will I feel if my business dealings today are secretly recorded on a hidden video camera, and appear on this evening's television newscast for all to see?” IfsWayFeelsTodayAsksTechnologyModernTelevisionMoralityCamerasSticksDetermineVideoEveningEthicalAcceptableMeasuringConductingDealingsModern TechnologyVideo Cameras Author:Wayne D. Dosick
“The modern artist is living in a mechanical age and we have a mechanical means of representing objects in nature such as the camera and photograph. The modern artist, it seems to me, is working and expressing an inner world - in other words - expressing the energy , the motion and the other inner forces ... the modern artist is working with space and time , and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.” WorldMeanFeelingsSeemsAgeArtistEnergyForceSpaceModernObjectsCamerasPhotographTime And SpaceRepresentingInner WorldModern ArtIllustrating Author:Jackson Pollock
“Sometimes I feel ashamed at my lack of interest in all the new techniques of modern filmmaking, but I prefer to work with as little equipment as possible. If I have a good lens and a steady camera, that's all I need.” IfsNeedsFeelsLittlesSometimesInterestModernCamerasTechniqueAshamedSteadyFilmmakingEquipmentLenses Author:Sven Nykvist
“I have an Honors Degree in Drama from the University of Alberta, but when it was done I knew a life in modern theatre was not for me. While figuring out what the hell I might do instead of theatre, I spent a couple of days on a horror film doing stunt work. I'd never been behind the camera before, and I loved everything about it. I joined the local film co-op - The Film and Video Arts Society of Alberta - because you could trade skills for experience. These indie filmmakers were making their own stuff their own way, all the time. Instant education.” WayArtDoneMightFilmStuffBehindsHellModernCoupleHonorDramaHorrorSkillsDegreesCamerasTradeUniversityTheatreLocalsVideoFilmmakerInstantHorror FilmAlberta Author:Karen Walton
“All too frequently the amateur will purchase a fine modern camera and proceed to use it for making the most elementary simple snapshots. This surely is like playing 'Chopsticks' on a concert grand piano.” UseSimpleModernFineCamerasPianoConcertsSnapshotsChopsticks Author:Sam Haskins
“The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.” PeopleMenMindHas BeensRunningTodayCitiesModernWeaponsDestructionTownsCamerasInstrumentsPhotographFactoriesFrighteningWarfareRuinedSpyBombingMappingForerunners Author:John Steinbeck
“Death Race was a very modern action movie and it used all of those modern action techniques with lots of hand-held camera, lots of punchy zooms, and lots of quick movements and quick cuts. In 3D, I didn't want to do that anymore.” WantHandsActionUsedRaceCuttingModernMovementCamerasTechniqueAction MovieZoomDeath Race Author:Paul W. S. Anderson
“Only the camera seems to be really capable of describing modern life.” SeemsModernCapableCamerasModern LifeDescribing Author:Alexander Rodchenko
“Every time the diaphragm winks, the camera repeats the question that now travels through cyberspace and invades, as a modern virus, the memories of machines, men and women. The question that history sets forth. The question which forces us to define ourselves and whose answer makes us human: On which side are you?” MenHumansForceSidesMemoriesAnswersModernMen And WomenMachinesCamerasRepeatsVirusesCyberspace Author:Subcomandante Marcos
“It's hard to do a camera inside of a car. Non-Stop would have been impossible. Usually modern lenses you can focus up to the lens pretty much, but anamorphic you can't. You need like three feet.” NeedsHas BeensHardThreeFocusImpossibleFeetModernCarCamerasLensesNon Stop Author:Jaume Collet-Serra