Quotes about My Camera

I always carry my camera with me. Votes: 4

I'm going to miss my best friends - my cameras. Votes: 4

I often go out on the street with my camera and ask questions. Votes: 4

...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere. Votes: 3

I never, ever went out without my camera, even to buy bread. Votes: 3

Being a shy person, I always felt strange outside with my camera. Votes: 3

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. Votes: 3

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story. Votes: 3

The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera, Votes: 3

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously. Votes: 3

The collection of photographs is a statement about the relationship of my camera and me. Votes: 3

Nonni's Biscotti Bites fit perfectly in my camera bag for a spontaneous break between photo shoots. Votes: 3

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen. Votes: 3

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. Votes: 3

My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport. Votes: 3

When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible. Votes: 3

Nothing attracts me like a closed door. I cannot let my camera rest until I have pried it open. Votes: 3

The last time I changed my camera was 50 years ago. All I need is a good face and the right light. Votes: 3

I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it. Votes: 3

I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point. Votes: 3

I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express. Votes: 3

It's different now, like pushing the stop lever on my camera until nothing except the war can squeeze through the lens. Votes: 3

The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations. Votes: 3

I had to get my camera to register things that were more important than how poor they were--their pride, their strength, their spirit. Votes: 3

My personal interest in ordinary people is unlimited, but I am fascinated by the challenge of portraying true greatness adequately with my camera. Votes: 3

There is no off position on my visual switch, and I don't want one. I love, and always have, telling stories with my camera. Votes: 3

I always take photographs when I attend a funeral. Most people there know who I am and expect me to be there with my camera. Votes: 3

I never had a "project." I would go out and shoot, follow my eyes... I tried to capture with my camera, for others to see. Votes: 3

When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world. Votes: 3

I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got. Votes: 3

When I get up in the morning I brush my teeth and go about my business, and if I am going anywhere interesting I take my camera along. Votes: 3

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?' Votes: 3

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera. Votes: 3

I didn't want to be a woman photographer. That would limit me. I wanted to be a photographer who was a woman, with all the world open to my camera. Votes: 3

If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind. Votes: 3

I always considered, with every shoot, I was on trial; every time I pick up my camera and start out on the relationship, I am at degree zero. There is no coasting. Votes: 3

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist. Votes: 3

For those who were desperate, my camera became an object of hope (...)Throughout my year-long coverage of the monsoon world, my strongest conviction was that I was involved in the fundamentals of life. Votes: 3

There are days when everyone in the world looks like a Diane Arbus to me. She's a genius but her work is completely different to mine. But on those days I don't use my camera. Votes: 3

I have a team, the same team of filmmakers I worked with on Pi and Requiem. Which is my cameraman, and my composer, and my producer. We've all worked together for a number of films. Votes: 3

I had rescued the moment by using my camera and in that way had found how to stop time and hold it. No one could take that image away from me because I owned it. Votes: 3

I learned how to skate, I couldn't do the tricks, but I could certainly skate fast enough. I could keep up with anybody and I could bomb hills and I could hide behind my camera. Votes: 3

I just happened to have my camera and be photographing my friends. It was totally innocent; there was no purpose to the photographs. There was a purity to them that wasn’t planned; it was realism. Votes: 3

I suffered first as a child from discrimination, poverty ... So I think it was a natural follow from that that I should use my camera to speak for people who are unable to speak for themselves. Votes: 3

I saw that my camera gave me a sense of connection with others that I never had before. It allowed me to enter lives, satisfying a curiosity that was always there but that was never explored before. Votes: 3

This is how you can tell a real photographer: mostly, a real photographer does not say 'I wish I had my camera on me right now'. Instead a real photographer pulls out her camera and takes the photograph. Votes: 3

Just having the camera, being able to pull back from situations and be an observer, it saved my life... I realised I could find these intimate moments and that people trusted me. That, basically, my camera was magic. Votes: 3

The naked figures in the landscape have willingly undressed for my camera. They are either perfect beings heroically occupying their Edens, or else they are gardeners after the Fall, lost and exposed to both the elements and the lens. Votes: 3

In my hand luggage I always have my camera, iPod, make-up bag, tooth brush, cleansing products, clean underwear, socks and a change of clothes in case anything goes missing at the other end - and of course my passport. Votes: 3

Designing the technical aspects of my camera movement for me is very important. I want the camera to be a big part in telling the story as well, like what I really believe in with all the films I make. Votes: 3

I could get my camera and point it at two people and not point it at the homeless third person to the right of the frame, or not include the murder that's going on to the left of the frame. Votes: 3

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. Votes: 3

I was terrified by this idea that I would lose the ability to enjoy and appreciate the sunset without having my camera on me, without tweeting it to my friends. It felt like technology should enable magic, not kill it. Votes: 3

If you're going to photograph skateboarders you can't run after them, you've got to learn how to skate. So at about 50 years old I learned how to skate, and skate fast enough to keep up with them and hold my camera. Votes: 3

Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.' Votes: 3

I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all. Votes: 3

I enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer. Votes: 3

I've always been a homemaker, like, I like creating spaces. Even if I stay in a hotel, I'll unpack, I'll put my books out, I'll put my camera out, I'll throw a sweater over the lamp to get better light. I am a homemaker. Votes: 3

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera. Votes: 3

One time the power went out in my house and I had to use the flash on my camera to see my way around. I made a sandwich and took fifty pictures of my face. The neighbors thought there was lightning in my house. Votes: 3

My eyes has been my camera taking pictures of the world and my songs has been my messages that I tried to scatter across the back sides and along the steps of the fire escapes and on the window sills and through the dark halls... Votes: 3

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most Votes: 3

I have a master's degree in photography as a fine art, and I would call my work primarily conceptual. I don't carry cameras with me wherever I go. I get an idea of a subject matter I want to deal with and I pull out my cameras. Votes: 3

Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. Votes: 3

For nearly two years, I was flying above the planet with my camera. I knew straight away that this was something important to do, just at this moment, a portrait of the planet for the millennium year. I worked in 80 countries, fighting for money all the time. Votes: 3

Art is a well-articulated manifestation of an aspect of life. I have been privileged to view much of life through my cameras, making the journey an enlightened experience. My emphasis has mainly been on affirmative reactions to human behavior and a strong attraction to the beauty in nature. Votes: 3

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty to them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has almost the embodiment of a prayer. Votes: 3

I take my camera pretty much everywhere and try to get the most diverse photos possible, since I get to travel to all the greatest cities in the country and see iconic architecture and things like that. I also like racing photos - like motorcycles, cars, stuff like that. Votes: 3

When I have had such men before my camera my whole soul has endeavored to do its duty towards them in recording faithfully the greatness of the inner as well as the features of the outer man. The photograph thus taken has been almost the embodiment of a prayer. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I always think, 'What does this picture mean? What's the best place to put my camera? Do I have anything extra in the picture, things in the background that will distract? Am I in the basic position that will give the essential things for this picture but not too much?' Votes: 3

I bought a camera with my first ever paycheck. Votes: 2

Ironically, I don't like having cameras in my face. Votes: 2

When I have a camera in my hand, I know no fear. Votes: 2

My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. Votes: 2

I love my iPhone; it's great to have a camera around all the time. Votes: 2

I wore a GoPro camera on my head for all three of my boys. Votes: 2

I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me. Votes: 2

The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me. Votes: 2

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche. Votes: 2

I try to tell my story as simply as possible, with the camera at eye level. Votes: 2

One of my favorite things to do is be in front of the camera and act. Votes: 2

I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras. Votes: 2

Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing. Votes: 2

All my films are shot on hand-held cameras. These cameras took five years to build and had to be light enough to be carried. Votes: 2

I like having the digital camera on my smart phone, but I also like having a dedicated camera for when I want to take real pictures. Votes: 2

I think the camera was always my obsession, the camera movements. Because for me it's the most important thing in the move, the camera, because without the camera, film is just a stage or television - nothing. Votes: 2

I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!' Votes: 2

Sometimes my pathology just spills out into the camera doesn't it? Votes: 0

I do my best to not be on camera. I hate it. Votes: 0

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera. Votes: 0

I wish the camera could smell my armpits. Dude, mine smell good. Votes: 0

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story. Votes: 0

My camera is my compass; it's guided me to so many different places. Votes: 0

I wanted [my photography] to appear as though the camera was seeing by itself. Votes: 0

Im a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera. Votes: 0

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful. Votes: 0

I'm a techno moron. I need help just to plug in my video camera. Votes: 0

I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket. Votes: 0

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit. Votes: 0

My talent lies in the fact that I cannot touch a camera without expressing myself. Votes: 0

I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday. Votes: 0

I'm shooting a pilot based on my show. It's a one-camera show. I play myself. Votes: 0

I never knew my titties was bigger than Pamela So paparazzi flickin be flickin their camera Votes: 0

So I was hugely thrilled that my first scene ever on camera was with Hal Holbrook. Votes: 0

I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life. Votes: 0

My lips are like camera for her, whenever I click her with my lips, she smiles. Votes: 0

I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside. Votes: 0

The camera is as much a part of my everyday life as talking or eating or sex. Votes: 0

Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work. Votes: 0

I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera. Votes: 0

At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way. Votes: 0

I don't take the camera out with me. My eyes are the camera for me every day. Votes: 0

The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie, Votes: 0

I am very proud of my husband, both behind the camera and in front of the camera. Votes: 0

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it. Votes: 0

The day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body. Votes: 0

I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera. Votes: 0

I got five kids, and my oldest is a documentary film maker and camera man, and still photographer. Votes: 0

It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt. Votes: 0

Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one. Votes: 0

Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate. Votes: 0

I had to learn how to modulate my performances and interpretations of these roles in auditions for the camera. Votes: 0

My dog, Puffy. The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera. Votes: 0

As soon as I had the camera in my hand for the first time, I just fell in love. Votes: 0

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15. Votes: 0

My great joy in working on anything is stepping out in front of the camera and working with the actors. Votes: 0

I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front. Votes: 0

The best gift I've ever gotten... My grandpa gave me a Polaroid camera when I was younger. It was awesome! Votes: 0

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. Votes: 0

I have produced all my music videos. Love to get behind the camera and get involved in the editing process. Votes: 0

He stuck a camera down my throat....ewwww, I gagged!!! It was kinda funny though.....he said I have "Acute Laryngitis". Votes: 0

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. Votes: 0

In my years of acting, the one thing I was never able to do convincingly was to laugh on camera. Fake-laugh. Votes: 0

My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. Votes: 0

The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water. Votes: 0

Many of my family members are teachers in the arts, and I picked up the camera years ago, in high school. Votes: 0

I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing. Votes: 0

My acting technique is to look up at God just before the camera rolls and say, 'Give me a break.' Votes: 0

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life. Votes: 0

If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera. Votes: 0

I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed. Votes: 0

Sometimes my fashion pictures can look a little bit like documentary style pictures. So having a camera in my hand was normal. Votes: 0

I'm a photographer, obviously. My chosen tool for understanding life, and communicating the results of this search to others, is the camera. Votes: 0

Performing has always been something I wanted to do. My dad had a video camera and I loved being in front of it. Votes: 0

Being on set with my daughter watching her in front of the camera was a fantastic experience. I am so proud of her. Votes: 0

I picked up a camera because it was my choice of weapons against what I hated most about the universe: racism, intolerance, poverty. Votes: 0

While making my picture window photographs, I came to think that every room was like a gigantic camera forever pointed at the same view. Votes: 0

My friend who I went to boarding school with was interested in photography. He insisted that I buy a camera and marched me downtown. Votes: 0

My acting stopped being about disguise and became about truth which suits the camera, so my film career took off when I came out. Votes: 0

I was meticulously copying other art and then I realized I could just use a camera and put my time into an idea instead. Votes: 0

And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends Votes: 0

I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look. Votes: 0

I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life. Votes: 0

I don't want to disrespect hip-hop by being something I'm not. I'm Pooch Hall. My strength is in front the camera and holding dialogue. Votes: 0

My photographs are not just about the instant of movement you capture in the camera. It's much more total, about constant movement that became static. Votes: 0

My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman. Votes: 0

I always have a camera now that I've got a kid, but I don't think I've got one picture of anyone other than my daughter. Votes: 0

I stumbled into this business, I didn't train for it. I yelled 'Action!' on my first two movies before the camera was turned on. Votes: 0

I love acting. Acting's always been my first love. I grew up watching multi-camera television shows... And I thought I would absolutely be in for that. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it. Votes: 0

There were moments - I would be daydreaming - I would imagine scenes, even if there wasn't a camera around. In my head, I was acting. Votes: 0

The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film. Votes: 0

I can't sit on my bum very long in a movie theater seat, and when I'm directing, I always want to move the camera or edit. Votes: 0

Bruce Willis. Pain in my ass, no problem about that. We just didn't get along. We got along off camera, but shooting we just didn't get along. Votes: 0

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

When I first began, the technicians, camera and makeup men made me feel so self-conscious that I began to have the biggest inferiority complex about my looks. Votes: 0

I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths. Votes: 0

I suppose I'm a bit mean. My face on camera doesn't lend itself to happy nice guys. I think it's just that my bone structure looks menacing. Votes: 0

My mom was a photographer and whenever they needed a baby for a modelling job, she'd stick me in front of the camera. That's how it started. Votes: 0

I carry a disposable camera. It takes me back to my childhood, when you had to develop your film and wait to see what pictures you got. Votes: 0

I loved being asked 2,000 questions a day, storyboarding every move, knowing as though by instinct exactly where the camera had to be, because it was my story. Votes: 0

For example, in my dorm, at the University of Kentucky, I had the only camera. I don't think anyone came to college with a camera, other than me. Votes: 0

To my father, art had no restrictions. He was a true 'American Primitive.' He greatly enjoyed sketching and photography, carrying a camera with him whenever he could, Votes: 0

I'm in a great place because I trust people behind the camera as I go off, and I still go back to my day job and do film. Votes: 0

My truest passion is writing, so I continue to do that on my own while seeing what all the buzz is about being in front of the camera. Votes: 0

My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories, because my 8mm movie camera was the way into whatever I decided to do. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

During prom season, I travel around the country with a 20-by-24 camera - which is logistically complicated - and photograph proms. My husband made a film of it. Votes: 0

In the early days of my child labor activities I was an investigator with a camera attachment... but the emphasis became reversed until the camera stole the whole show. Votes: 0

I don't really have a favorite camera. I use a Leica and Canon a lot. It depends, especially professionally, on the requirements. But my carry-around camera is a Leica. Votes: 0

My father had a Super 8 camera when I was a kid and sometimes he would use it. I did some animation with it. I did a lot of flipbooks. Votes: 0

I think Jon Foo and my chemistry is incredible! Foo is a genuine introvert and I'm a genuine extrovert. We're the perfect ying and yang, on and off camera. Votes: 0

Obviously, my stuff has been more in the comedy realm, and I really believe that if I'm laughing behind the camera, then I think the film will be funnier. Votes: 0

Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly. Votes: 0

I'm really shy with my acting when it's off, because the camera gives me an excuse to be in character, whereas otherwise I would just feel like an idiot. Votes: 0

When it came to the on-camera TV stuff, I'd be standing next to the director, my friend, and he'd be asked a question that I should have been answering. Votes: 0

I'm the sort of person who takes a camera to dinner or a nightclub because I enjoy taking pictures of people. I tweet all my pictures, which is bad. Votes: 0

I like being involved in the lighter side of journalism because it serves a purpose, and it's fun. And I can keep my opinions off camera if I want. Votes: 0

My first concern is that when you go to a show, you should be present. It's much more exciting to put the camera down and lose yourself in it. Votes: 0

I'll be gray by the time I'm 30, but I like my hair. It looks shiny. I like the way it looks when those highlights are picked up on camera. Votes: 0

My directors of photography light my films, but the colours of the sets, furnishings, clothes, hairstyles - that's me. Everything that's in front of the camera, I bring you. Votes: 0