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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
After you play husband and wife on camera multiple times, it becomes easy to be husband and wife off camera as well.
Comic timing... is how to have a relationship with the camera and deal with the camera without looking like you are.
When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get.
But for me, personally, I didn't have any ambitions to become an actor. I'm interested in getting behind the camera.
I was one of the first veejays to take the camera out on location, and that's what was unique about MTV at that time.
If you ask me, we actors have this amazing ability to detach ourselves from an emotion and just do it for the camera.
The camera never lies, man. I've learned that. If you allow it, it will see right through you, which is kind of cool.
At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back.
If there were teenagers who had a video camera and saw what I did on a daily basis, they'd be bored out of their mind.
There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.
You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera.
Being out there in a high-pressure situation with a live audience and a live TV camera on you, it brings something out.
I never had the desire to get in front of the camera. It never occurred to me! I always thought I'd be a theater actor.
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company.
The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter.
If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do.
Kevin Costner has feathers in his hair and feathers in his head. The Indians should have called him 'Plays with Camera.'
The dynamic range of a digital camera is not that much greater than film, particularly if you push the ASA a little bit.
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
I can't stand people who look into the camera and look into the eyes of millions of people and wax political correctness.
At the end of the day, you're trying to - be it on theatre or on the camera - tell the truth and be honest in the moment.
Television is a prisoner of dialogue and steady-cam. People walk down a hall, and the camera follows them around a corner.
No one knows who I am and no-one cares. I could jump in front of a camera man and he'd just tell me to get out of the way.
I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.
There's two aspects of film crafting that I'm very strict about, and that's how I move my camera and where I cut the film.
I am interested in people. I'm interested in telling stories, whether that is behind the camera or in front of the camera.
I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit.
I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace.
Some people, myself in particular, have an adversarial relationship with the camera, and it sprouts up in every photograph.
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
You can be in an acting class all you want, but you don't fully learn until you get off that stage and in front of a camera.
Being a songwriter does not rely on an audience or other band members or a camera. I can just sit in a room and write songs.
I love 'Sunset Boulevard.' I love the writing, I love the performances, I love the camera work. I think it's a perfect movie.
It's not like I'm nervous of people seeing what I can or can't do on camera or on TV or anything, or what my engineers think.
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.
Hugh Grant does a great job with his style. Somehow understated yet timeless and seems to get it. He does it on and off camera.
I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.
I'm bad in front of the camera. However, if someone gave me a small role in a film with two dialogues and one scene, I'd do it.
Your camera is the best critic there is. Critics never see as much as the camera does. It is more perceptive than the human eye.
I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on.
I love being a grandparent. I'm one of those you want to avoid - I pull out the iPhone and say, 'Hey, wanna see my camera roll?'
The camera is no one's friend - you have to leave your problems at home and make people laugh. That's never an easy thing to do.
It wasn't like I picked a camera up in 1989 and stopped making music. I picked a camera up and found another form of expression.
I got a camera when I was nine years old and it wasn't until I was a model that I realized you could be a photographer for a job.
Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.