I learnt a lot about how to negotiate the camera: everyone had told me an actor doesn’t really need to do anything on screen, but I realised that wasn’t true. If you do nothing, it’s boring. – Stephen Mangan
I don’t get tripped up in technology. I use technology as a tool. ‘Oldboy’ we shot Two Pro 35mm. For ‘Da Blood of Jesus,’ we shot digitally. We shot the new Sony F55. It’s a 4K camera. – Spike Lee
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?’ – Susan Isaacs
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera. – Sofia Coppola
The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes. – Simon Conway Morris
I often wonder when I make a film – I’m thinking of making a film of the Buddha – and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director – if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera – would we get Buddhism better? – Shekhar Kapur
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people’s reality, and eventually in one’s own. – Susan Sontag
The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing. – Sean Hayes
I’ve been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that’s the medium I understand. – Samantha Morton
I do have a concern about projecting. I’ve never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film. – Topher Grace
I wasn’t trained to be in front of a camera, so there were a lot of challenges at first. But I didn’t want to be fake. – Yuna
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses. – Walter Benjamin
It’s usually so fraught when you’re taking a picture. I work with an 8-by-10 view camera and there’s a, you know, hood that I put over my head, and it’s tricky and complicated. – Sally Mann
I didn’t used to do shows, because I used to be so shy. We’d perform, and I’d be at the back, thinking of another song. I was so shy, I ain’t never getting in front of the camera; I would never get on stage. – Young Thug
Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994’s ‘Quiz Show,’ exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you. – Steve Erickson
I move my face so much because I’m very much expressive. I’m told a lot, ‘Stop moving your face’. Because on camera, the tiniest movement tells so much, and it looks really hammy. – Sarah Greene
I like to be on set and see what the camera guys are up to. I like to see all the jobs that come together to make the thing you are also making. – Thomas Brodie-Sangster
It’s such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you’d just have a screen test, and they’d say, ‘Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,’ and you’d just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever. – Vinessa Shaw
I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn’t that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera. – Steve-O