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"I raised the camera, pretended to study a focus which did not include them, and waited and watched closely, sure that I would finally catch the revealing expression, one that would sum it all up, life that is rhythmed by movement but which a stiff image destroys, taking time in cross section, if we do not choose the essential imperceptible fraction of it."
"To say that "the camera cannot lie" is merely to underline the multiple deceits that are now practised in its name."
"Every photograph that is made whether by one who considers himself a professional, or by the tourist who points his snapshot camera and pushes a button, is a response to the exterior world, to something perceived outside himself by the person who operates the camera."
"They say the camera never lies. It lies every day."
"In the theater, while you recognized that you were looking at a house, it was a house in quotation marks. On screen, the quotation marks tend to be blotted out by the camera."
"Nobody should touch a Polaroid [camera] until he's over sixty"
"I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing."
"Biologically, I'm lucky - an angular face and dark colouring which shows up well on camera."
"The first time I went to Taiwan, there were cameras, paparazzi, TV stations outside my hotel twenty-four hours a day nonstop."
"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."
"In the camera business, you won't survive if you don't innovate. In the guitar business you may or may not. The guitars being sold were designed between '48 and '59, Gibson SGs in '61."
"The general killed the Viet Cong; I killed the general with my camera."
"A strange thing happens to me that I'm sure happens to a lot of actors when the camera starts rolling. I'm not 'me' any more."
"As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating."
"It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly."
"With this kind of camera-phone madness we have got, moments are diluted into self-contained edited experiences."
"I never had the confidence to say I was going to be in front of the camera as a comedian until I saw Eddie Murphy years later."
"I once said that effort is between you, and you, and nobody else. The same can be true between and individual and their camera. What you're shooting is between you and you and nobody else. Outcomes are for the audience. The action is yours alone."
"I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera."
"I'm doing an over-the-shoulder shot on a dog. I'm putting the camera behind the dog's shoulder. This is craziness. You just accept it in the movie [Valley of Violence], but when you make the movie, it's the weirdest thing. There's dog coverage, like it's a person."
