The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
Walter Benjamin

Each new film is like a trial. Before I step in front of the camera, I do not know whether I am going to fall or whether I am going to fly - and that is exactly the way I want it to stay.
Juliette Binoche

There are certain men and women who, from the minute they step in front of a camera, that's exactly where they belong. Connery's one.
F. Murray Abraham

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

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Edward Weston

The camera can photograph thought.
Dirk Bogarde

My college degree was in theater. But the real reason, if I have any success in that milieu, so to speak, is because I spent a lot of years directing, I spent a lot of years behind the camera.
Alton Brown

I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element.
Herb Ritts

I'd go down to the end of my street, to a garage that had a certain feeling about it, or a particular light; I'd take a picture of a friend who needed a head shot. That's how I learned, instead of having school assignments and learning camera techniques.
Herb Ritts

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.
Minor White

I loved the stage and then grew to love the camera.
Christine Lahti

The goal is to have to do the shot again because the camera guy shook a little bit as he was laughing. Without that happening, I'm not happy because there's nothing better for me than a world that everybody's just trying to make each other laugh.
Matthew Perry

The film of tomorrow will not be directed by civil servants of the camera, but by artists for whom shooting a film constitutes a wonderful and thrilling adventure.
Francois Truffaut

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.
Stanley Tucci

I can understand why those primitive desert people think a camera steals their soul. It is unnatural to see yourself from the outside.
Nigella Lawson

I paint what I see, not what a camera would see.
John Dyer

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Fiona Shaw

I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.
Devon Sawa

I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera.
Brendan Fraser

The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
Dorthea Lange