“For me, being in front of a camera is a matter of practicing and refining your art. I think, if you're telling a story worth telling, it's worth investing the time into developing.” IfsThinkingArtMatterStoriesFrontsCamerasInvestingDevelopingRefining Author:Danny Pino
“I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories - I love telling stories.” YearsStoriesWantedCamerasEightTelling Stories Author:Brett Ratner
“If the breaking news event has something to do with young people, specifically with MTV's audience, there was a higher chance that I would actually go cover it with a television camera instead of just write the story myself and read it on the air.” PeopleIfsWritingStoriesYoungChanceAudienceAirEventsTelevisionHigherNewsCamerasMtvBreaking News Author:Tabitha Soren
“Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.” KnowsStoriesKidsFilmStuffKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingSpecialEffectsDrawsCamerasBudgetsFrustrationMy SisterSpecial Effects Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“I learned very quickly that the hard thing in life is to make good films. Technically, filmmaking is the camera and the actor telling the story and that's what I'm more interested in doing.” HardStoriesFilmLife IsActorsCamerasThings In LifeFilmmakingHard ThingsGood Films Author:Matthew Vaughn
“You usually get one or the other, you get someone who knows how to tell a story but they don't necessarily know about light and camera and rhythm, or you get someone who can make beautiful images but they can't necessarily tell a great story. He does both and I think he's going to be one of the film-makers that our time is remembered for.” ThinkingKnowsDoeStoriesLightBeautifulFilmKnow HowMarkCamerasRhythmRememberedOur TimeMakersBeautiful Images Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“I don't necessarily believe in the ideology of cinema verité. I think by the very fact that you have a camera there you are affecting the story and you are influencing it.” ThinkingBelieveFactsStoriesInfluenceCamerasIdeologyCinema Author:David Shapiro
“I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.” StoriesCameras Author:Steven Spielberg