I grew up in the business since I was three years old so I’ve always kind of been in front of the camera and grew up in commercials and I knew that I wanted to do it no matter what, I just loved it. – Ashley Tisdale
I don’t like to work with assistants. I’m already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. – Alfred Eisenstaedt
We build camera rigs tailored specifically to the story we’re trying to tell or the shot we’re trying to capture. – Chris Milk
In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. – Alex Cox
I’m very in love with the fact that the camera is revolted by acting and loves behaviour. – Ben Kingsley
I don’t like improvising on camera, particularly, but very often, a scene will not be working, and you rehearse it once or twice, and you realize something’s missing. So I’ll play with it until it makes sense. – Alan Arkin
After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn’t want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn’t think I would stop acting, but I didn’t want to be seen. – Ben Affleck
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment’s notice. – Clint Eastwood
After my grandmother passed away, I felt the urge to take my camera to her flat. I knew this flat from my childhood in Tel Aviv. Going to this flat was like going abroad; there was a real feeling of traveling across Tel Aviv and ending up in Berlin. – Arnon Goldfinger
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character’s context. – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. – Christina Ricci
When I was on ‘SNL,’ I was getting weirdly anxious about being on camera, which I had never really done before. And so my solution was just to not watch my stuff. And then I found out that other actors do it, too, and I felt less weird about it. – Bill Hader
Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses. – Alison Jackson
I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. – Beau Bridges
I prefer theater, but I love to do films, and I prefer theater primarily because I’ve done more. I know less about movies. You can’t lie in either medium. The wonderful thing is that the camera, just like an audience, is made out of skin – because celluloid is skin. – Amanda Plummer
When I walked in to read with Edie Falco, it was nice, because I auditioned in New York, and it was very quick. You walk in, there’s Edie, the producers, the director, and a camera. I read three scenes, and it was done. – Adam Ferrara
I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. Unlike a lot of actors, I think that’s the thing that I’m not so comfortable with. – Christina Ricci
I really love being onstage – that’s kind of home base – but I love the camera, too. I love it all. – Anthony Zerbe
Glass is the world’s worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass. – Astro Teller
The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much. – Annie Leibovitz
I spent a whole 12 years helping other people tell their stories as a publicist, so just to be able to go and write and get behind the camera, that’s my thing. – Ava DuVernay
I was so used to documentary filming, where it’s one take. You can’t really say, ‘Make that elephant charge again!’ And you talk to the camera. With movie filming, you’re talking to someone else. – Bindi Irwin
She claimed she loved the camera, its warmth, its familiarity. She responded to its naked glare, its slavish attention to every expression of her face and body, with the kind of immediacy a trusted lover could expect. – Anne Edwards