Cameras Quotes - Page 3

• The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.

  Walter Benjamin

  Photography, Doe, Optics

  Walter Benjamin (1968). “Illuminations”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it.

  Charlie Hunnam

  Smile, Nice, Easier

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• When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

  Ansel Adams

  Inspirational, Photography, Creativity

  Attributed in "AB bookman's weekly: for the specialist book world", Vol. 76, Nr. 19-27; (p. 3326), 1985.

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• The most difficult thing for me is a portrait. You have to try and put your camera between the skin of a person and his shirt.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photography, Skins, Trying

  "Philosophers set in stone: Steve Pyke's piercing portraits" by Sean O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 8, 2011.

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• I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Photography, Would Be, Assistants

  Alfred Eisenstaedt, Arthur A. Goldsmith (1969). “The eye of Eisenstaedt”, Studio

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• From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.

  Whitney Houston

  Great Friend, Friend Love

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• I know the pundits and the news media have carried a lot of commentary about cameras in the courtroom, and theres a lot of controversy about it as a result of the Simpson case. But I have not had enough time to step back and enough time to evaluate that.

  Lance Ito

  Media, Enough Time, News

  "Ito: 'What you see is what's there'". www.cnn.com. October 24, 1995.

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• Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers.

  Paul Weyrich

  Teacher, Parent, Classroom

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• Happy Days, which we did for 11 years, we did with three cameras in front of a live audience. Very special. We had a party every Friday night. The boys, Ron, Henry, they grew up on that show.

  Marion Ross

  Friday, Party, Boys

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• I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

  J. Lee Thompson

  Movie, Agreement, Way

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• When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.

  Monica Bellucci

  Differences, Bigs, Budgets

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• In the Belgian air force a general supposedly saw a UFO, tracked it with his plane, photographed it with his wing cameras. And I believe it because I said to myself why would this person, not getting paid for this, do it unless it actually happened or he thought it happened.

  Robert Stack

  Believe, Air, Wings

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• The thrill of being in front of a camera remains exactly the same.

  Julie Andrews

  Thrill, Remains, Fronts

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• I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself.

  Dane Cook

  Play, Pilots, Shooting

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• I'm very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour.

  Ben Kingsley

  Acting, And Love, Behaviour

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• I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.

  Steven Spielberg

  Smell, Knowing, Film

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• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  W. Eugene Smith

  Photography, Travel, Doe

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• One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

  Takeshi Kitano

  Fake People, Hate, Character

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

  Edward Weston

  Photography, Eye, Ideas

  "Pictures on a page: photojournalism and picture editing" by Harold Evans, Edwin Taylor, (p. 75), 1978.

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• For an actress there is no greater gift than having a camera in front of you, listening to the most beautiful music in the world and just being looked at!

  Isabelle Huppert

  Beautiful, Listening, World

  Interview with Christopher Cook, www.theguardian.com. November 11, 2001.

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• I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing

  Mary-Kate Olsen

  Thinking, One Day, Want

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• Butte was once a grand city. To me, that city is like one big stage for Edward Hopper. You could put your camera anywhere, and you felt you were looking at his paintings.

  Wim Wenders

  Cities, Painting, Bigs

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• I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.

  Debbie Allen

  Design, Looks, Rehearsal

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• It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

  Debbie Allen

  Cutting, Way, Kind

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• You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

  Anne, Princess Royal

  Hands, Pests

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