Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.
I am not going to be dictated to by the size of the camera. I use everything from an 8 x 10 to a 35-mm. But I don't use these modern cameras which break down all the time !
The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.
I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me.
The idea of somebody being a fan of something I can totally understand. The idea of being followed around by cameras or people taking pictures of you eating a hamburger, I kind of have trouble even imaging it.
It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.
I play football, and most football players are camera shy. We just want to be left alone; we just want to stick to what we do.
Let's face it, the human eye is clumsy, sloppy, and unintelligible when compared to the camera's eye.
When in doubt, I can stare blankly. The rubber face. There's only so many ways you can stare incredulously at the camera and tilt an eyebrow, but that's your old standby: What would Buster Keaton do?
I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want.
I love the chemistry that can be created onstage between the actors and the audience. It's molecular even, the energies that can go back and forth. I started in theater and when I first went into movies I felt that my energy was going to blow out the camera.
I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera.
I don't like working in front of a camera.
In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.
Having a hearing is educational. Having a hearing with television cameras is useful. Having a hearing with two rows of television cameras is Heaven.
I think about it all the time. I love filmmaking. Whether I'd be in front of the camera or behind the camera, I just love that world.
We had the camera locked, but not the location of the sun.
Once the cameras rolling or the audience is in the seats, I'm on. I can't help it. I go into a trance.
Louis B. Mayer came out west with $28. 00, a box camera and an old lion. He built a monument to himself -- the Bank of America.
One of the secrets of being a great photographic model, as it is for a great film actor, is that you let the camera in. It's an intimacy that the model or actor creates with the lens, that then transmits itself to the viewer.