"Photographs also show the way that the camera sees. It's not just me or you or anybody else. The camera does something that is different from our own setting."
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"To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed."
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"I have dreams of being a producer, being behind a camera, eating seven tacos for every meal, and making movies that affect people the way they affect me. I don't even need to be in them."
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"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"
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"I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts."
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"Even with cameras being very cheap, one thing that researchers noticed was that you look really bad in a videoconference image because the lighting is bad and you get shadows and things."
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"It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument."
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"In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it."
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"It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct."
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"Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies."
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"Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an interpretation of the world as paintings and drawings are"
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"The camera is much more than a recording apparatus, it is a medium via which messages reach us from another world."
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"There's this thing that publishes pictures of people out and about. So when I go out, I do see pictures of myself. I don't know where those pictures come from - I mean, I don't see the cameras. But I guess I'm just not looking for them."
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"I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything."
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"...my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere."
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"Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it."
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"To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images."
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"Photographs are perhaps the most mysterious of all the objects that make up, and thicken, the environment we recognize as modern. Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood."
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"The word reality scared me. I just looked at reality as everybody follows me around with a camera, and I'm not that kind of person. I fought for my privacy in England. And I didn't see another way it could be done."
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"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."
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