My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.
I never said the camera was truth. It is, however, a more accurate and more objective way of seeing.
I don't get a chance to be funny on camera as often as I would like.
Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty
"Utter truth is essential, and that is what stirs me when I look through the camera. "
If you are using a digital camera specifically for that reason you have in mind from the beginning, then yeah, it'll work. But like if you're just shooting a normal film and just kind of just shooting extra stuff because you can because you've got the memory space, it's a bit pointless.
The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin's bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.
Beauty, you're under arrest. I have a camera, and I'm not afraid to use it.
I'm really specific in the way that I shoot. I've always had a very good sense of what I need in the editing room. I used to shoot in a way that drew more attention to the camera and I've tried, in each film, to draw less and less attention to the camera. I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director.
I had a lot of energy when I was eleven and always liked being in front of a camera.
My mom had a Canon AE1 camera and I read the manual and that's basically how I became a photographer. I was in the Baltimore punk scene. I knew it was a special time, so I went out and documented that whole era. I was the only person to really do it of my friends in real black and white, beautiful portraits.
It never occurred to me that I was going to have to talk to a camera. I don't know if I can do this.
If I could film, we'd film every episode of 'Doctor Who' in New York. I have an affinity with the city. It has some wonderful locations and it is devastatingly vast and huge. Central Park looks amazing on camera.
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.
I like to hide my camera and use a remote control, because then no one knows when I'm actually imprisoning their souls in the visual plane of thought or just sitting there, waiting, and then making time stop. The printed film is like a bell used to symbolize its hour. Except it stands for both that hour's and everything's sudden stopping.
This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph.
Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.
I've always had two principles throughout all my life in motion-pictures: never do before the camera what you would not do at home and never do at home what you would not do before the camera.
I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.
Great claims are being made for the photograph as truth. We are showing you things, we show you the war. I say you can't actually. The camera can't.