Camera Quotes

I always have a full-length mirror next to the camera when I'm doing publicity stills. That way, I know how I look.
Marilyn Monroe

Next, Mirror, Publicity

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
Orson Welles

Good, Film, Head

Pick up a camera. Shoot something. No matter how small, no matter how cheesy, no matter whether your friends and your sister star in it. Put your name on it as director. Now you're a director. Everything after that you're just negotiating your budget and your fee.
James Cameron

Everything, Friends, Small

As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
Sam Abell

Someone, Special, Moment

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
Ansel Adams

Soul, Keep, Alive

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.
Demetri Martin

Great, Invention, Digital

Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all.
Stanley Kubrick

Best, Young, Film

I don't like camera trickery and editing and doubles and all of that.
Drew Barrymore

Editing, Doubles, Trickery

Everywhere you go you hear things that are untrue. You've just got to learn that if I don't say it, physically out of my mouth, on camera, it's not true.
Selena Gomez

True, Learn, Hear

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Tom Stoppard

Someone, Movie, Crush

The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
Susan Sontag

Reality, Everyone, Makes

A lot of people would be embarrassed to admit that they were on 'Barney', but I embrace the fact. I just had such a wonderful time doing that show. I learned what a camera and prop is, and all that. I learned my manners too, so I guess that's a good thing!
Selena Gomez

Time, Good, Learned

I like the smell of film. I just like knowing there's film going through the camera.
Steven Spielberg

Through, Knowing, Film

There is only you and your camera. The limitations in your photography are in yourself, for what we see is what we are.
Ernst Haas

I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera.
Steven Spielberg

Work, Time, Dad

I'm definitely a Polaroid camera girl. For me, what I'm really excited about is bringing back the artistry and the nature of Polaroid.
Lady Gaga

Nature, Girl, Excited

I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
Lily Tomlin

Mean, Whatever, Act

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future.
Lady Gaga

Future, Working, Film

I'm always that annoying person that pulls out the camera in the middle of dinner and starts taking candids.
Maria Sharapova

Person, Annoying, Taking

Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
David Brinkley

Pretty, Matter, Looking

The camera photographs what's there.
Jack Nicholson

I appreciate subtlety. I have never enjoyed a kiss in front of the camera. There's nothing to it except not getting your lipstick smeared.
Hedy Lamarr

Nothing, Kiss, Getting

I like to know where the camera is.
Jeff Bridges

Men still control the news, both on and off camera.
Jessica Savitch

Men, Control, Off

I always say that I've been in a bad mood for maybe 35 years now. I try to lighten it up, but that's what comes out when you get me on camera.
Martin Scorsese

Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder.
Tom Hiddleston

Society, Dad, Son

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.
Daniel Day-Lewis

Someone, Top, Front

But the moment you use an ordinary camera, you are not seeing the picture, remember, meaning, you had to remember what you've taken. Now you could see it of course, with a digital thing, but remember in 1982 you couldn't.
David Hockney

Remember, Moment, Picture

I can often tell when drawings are done from photographs, because you can tell what they miss out, what the camera misses out: usually weight and volume - there's a flatness to them.
David Hockney

Done, Tell, Often

You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
David Hockney

Name, Invention, Chemical

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