Not everyone with a painting brush is an artist, likewise not everyone with a camera is a photographer

I really love being onstage – that’s kind of home base – but I love the camera, too. I love it all.

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 think that women are underrepresented behind the camera as directors.

A camera teaches you how to see without a camera.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

We make, see, and love films, not digitals. To convert all of our movies, home videos, theaters, photographs and television to digital would be like telling a painter to throw away his brushes and canvas...

I can’t hold a camera anymore.

The camera would miss it all. A magnificent picture is never worth a thousand perfect words. Ansel Adams can be a great artist, but he can never be Shakespeare. His tools are too literal.

As with instant replay, NFL Films’ use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.

Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control.

I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera.

A model’s opinion seldom matters. The only time that he is required to open his mouth is when he is required to smile at the camera.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

I don’t like kissing on camera. It’s bad enough to be caught kissing by your parents. But when you have a whole crew watching you, it’s a little weird.

People say that a time machine can’t be invented, but they’ve already invented a device that can stop time, cameras are the world’s first time machines.

It doesn’t matter if you use a box camera or you use a Leica; the important thing is what motivates you when you are photographing.

COVERT CONVERTIf you don’t believe in God, then believe in the hidden camera

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

You only have to start saying of something : ‘Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !’ and you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is...

A paparazzi is merely an extremely nosy nobody with a camera—and bills to pay.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera.

photographs are very interesting, and you can look into them a million times and still find a new meaning in them, something in the past that was caught in the film itself…

The camera has always been a guide, and it’s allowed me to see things and focus on things that maybe an average person wouldn’t even notice.

I can see better when i close my eyes; don’t make much ado, that’s my latest style of view.

People, there’s no such thing as, THE BEST CAMERA BRAND, but yes there will always be THE BEST CAMERA AT ANY GIVEN TIME. Technology will change, but not art.

Working in front of the camera keeps me alive.

A camera is a save button for the minds eye.

No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it.

Most of us, when we go out with a camera in our own country, try to find exotic subject matter to photograph.

Film photography will always be superior to digital – because no matter how many lasers and instant buttons and HD pixels you’ve got, a human being can take a photograph with much more integrity and...

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

You can capture me with your beauty, only if you are a brilliant photographer.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

It’s good to have butterflies. And they always go away. The camera starts rolling and they go away and it’s all good.

I feel pretty comfortable in front of a camera.

I totally love being on camera.

Thank you… Apple, for adding a camera to the iPod Nano. Now it’s just like the iPhone except it can’t make calls. So basically, it’s just like the iPhone.

Nobody has ever taken a photograph of something they want to forget. We can build a wall of happy Kodak moments around ourselves, a wall of our Christmases, birthdays, baby showers and weddings, but we...

A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they’ll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won’t do a thing for you if you don’t have anything in your...

To photograph is to hold one’s breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It’s at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.

I never shot on sets, but if I was traveling somewhere or on location, I would always have my camera, and I’d always be – it’s that kind of fly on the wall approach to...

The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.

I’ve decided to recast myself as Utopian. I like this landscape of the M25 and Heathrow. I like airfreight offices and rent-a-car bureaus. I like dual carriageways. When I see a CCTV camera, I know...

I’ve always been interested in the camera and the effects of it – that’s what drew me to film in the first place.

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.

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.

you’re all a bunch of sheep!” and even if they did say anything, I doubt anyone would listen… they’re all too obsessed and attached to their cellular phones and overly big televisions and whatever other...

I was never that comfortable in front of the camera, it always terrified me.