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

I think I’m better behind the camera than I am in front.

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

Ninety-eight per cent of actors who actually make a living do so in front of a camera.

To be honest, I’ve always made films and I never really stopped, starting with little stop-motion experiments using my dad’s Super 8 camera. In my mind, it’s all one big continuum of filmmaking and I’ve...

With gift giving, if it’s the thought that counts, then a picture of a Mercedes is just as good as an actual Mercedes. With my new camera, I can’t wait to show you how much...

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh.

Judging by the photograph it seemed like I hadn’t been there at all. As if it was my camera that had been on holiday, and not me.

Some people are directors and I think they should stay behind the camera.

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours.

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

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

Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it’s all I’d ever do.

You know, the camera is not meant just to show misery.

Nowadays, Skype is a generational way of putting both people on camera at the same time.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.

Ironically, the only way to see clearly is to stand at a distance. You might be focused, but that doesn’t mean you are seeing correctly. Sometimes, you have you to grab the camera from the...

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...