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

I got a Super 8 camera when I was eight years old, and I just wanted to tell stories – I love telling stories.

People spot a big black lens, and they worry about what they’re doing, or how their hair looks. Nobody see the person holding the camera.

You are a pest, by the very nature of that camera in your hand.

My lips are like camera for her, whenever I click her with my lips, she smiles.

The camera looks into your soul.

we might have to eat the dog” poor, but still poor. Poor like, no insurance poor, and going to McDonald’s was a really big excitement poor, wearing socks for gloves in the winter poor, and...

I’m much happier behind the camera.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That’s all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

I have a book! It’s called ‘How Does She Do It?’ and it’s 35 years on camera.

If life worked on auto mode then there manual mode for photography would have never existed.

Fortunately, I’ve never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera’s my soul mate.

In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that’s why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they’re in love because really...

When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I...

…I take photographs and I film my own home movies, I have a darkroom as well… but I can’t be a photojournalist like you… I can’t be anything… still, at least I can take photographs,...

Most of the movies are working like, ‘Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut’ and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information – I try to involve,...

I always thought acting was all lights, camera, action. It’s a job; you have to do your job correctly.

He reached the ground floor and flung the door open, fleeing into the street. He glanced back and saw that she wasn’t following, so he slowed to a halt. His pulse raced. The entranceway was...

I grew up in an era that was a golden age of the blockbuster, when something we might call a family film could have universal appeal. That’s something I want to see again. In terms...

Always take a picture for everywhere you go; if you don’t, then all you just lost was the precious memories and moments

I create other worlds, magical never-never lands where the camera is my weapon and the battles I fight are with the elements. i stretch the laws of the mind and displace people from their realities...

The camera was kind to me. But I was never a screen personality like Gable or Flynn. The camera did something with their faces that was special.

The camera can be the most deadly weapon since the assassin’s bullet. Or it can be the lotion of the heart.

When you press the shutter, time won’t see which camera, it will still get freezed in a moment… and thats the best Farewell for that moment.

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.