You’re in front of an audience, but you’re playing for a camera. There’s this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home. – Jon Lovitz
I look at the camera as sort of a missing link between motion picture photography and still photography. – Jeff Bridges
I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel. – Irving Penn
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. – Ian Harding
There are so many ways to make a living that don’t involve hiding in bushes opposite houses of 18-year-old girls with a camera in your hand. – Jamie Dornan
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’m safe. – J. G. Ballard
So much of comics are dictated by characters talking to one another – or in focused spaces where ‘the camera’ has to stay in pretty close on what’s going on. – Jim Lee
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. – Jimmy Fallon
I have nothing snarky to say about Joan Rivers’ appearance. We should all be that happy with how we look on camera, frankly. – Julie Klausner
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. – James Wan
I directed the next-to-last episode of ‘Parenthood.’ I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don’t really feel like I’ve said good-bye to ‘Parenthood.’ – Jason Katims
I don’t rehearse with my actors… the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on… Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that’s allowed… so you film reactions; you don’t create them. – Ira Sachs
I saw something in the news, so I copied it. I put a piece of tape – I have obviously a laptop, personal laptop – I put a piece of tape over the camera. Because I saw somebody smarter than I am had a piece of tape over their camera. – James Comey
No baby boomer has a completely original idea, but after 13 years on ‘Today’ and another 11 on ‘Dateline,’ almost 30 years total at NBC, I felt the urge to find out what was ‘behind the camera.’ I had the feeling there was ‘something more,’ though ‘more’ might be less. – Jane Pauley
You never hear of a live-action studio that has been making so-so films looking over at a studio that’s making great movies and going, ‘Oh, we see the difference – we’re using a different camera.’ – John Lasseter
In the car and in front of the camera I tend to be very calm but behind the scenes I can get fired up and passionate, I just don’t see the need to shout my mouth off in public. – Jenson Button
I’ve always said the one advantage an actor has of converting to a director is that he’s been in front of the camera. He doesn’t have to get in front of the camera again, subliminally or otherwise. – Clint Eastwood
I came rather late to film. I’ve done an awful lot of theater before – before I discovered the camera, you know, seeing everything, requiring much less acting and – and much less presentation, much less projecting, more just being. – Ian Mckellen
I’m not scared of many things in front of the camera. Everywhere else, yes, I’m terrified. But acting is just pretending, and you are exploring feelings in a safe environment. – Julianne Moore
The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues. – Alex Pareene
I can only speak from my own personal experience, being behind the camera and in front of it, but every magazine cover you see is completely airbrushed. – Janice Dickinson
In America, we have bible-reading applications: every single one of those applications asks permission to turn on your microphone, your camera; it wants permission to read your e-mails and the right to send e-mails wherever it chooses. – John McAfee
If it’s stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it’s film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes. – Brad Dourif