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"The only reason I ever thought about retiring from the front part of the camera as opposed to the back is sometimes you think, "How many roles are there for someone my age?""
"A model needs to know how to project herself into the camera."
"The camera is as subjective as we are."
"When I'm on the red carpet, I'm prepared for [the attention.] But the worst thing is on planes, when you're asleep and you're woken up by a camera flashing. That's a little bit much. But what do you do? It's a part of [being famous]. Unfortunately."
"It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people."
"All the films are hits before you turn the camera on. It's only in the execution that they fail. I've been less than happy with the way a couple of films were edited, but it's a director's prerogative and you gotta go with it."
"I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front."
"I'd like my coffin to be a camera obscura so I can see what's going on outside."
"'I am a camera' but it is a discontinued model."
"There are many reasons why photography does not attract the social and cultural attention it deserves. I would add one more which has received scant attention: it does not make a lot of noise. ... Perhaps photography would be more appreciated if camera shutters fired with the sound of a .357 Magnum."
"Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world."
"I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras."
"I always knew I wanted to be in front of the camera. But even after 10 years behind the scenes at CBS News producing live segments, celebrity profiles, and breaking news, I still hadn't been given the chance to be on TV."
"I just [take pictures] because the camera is something to carry around in my pocket."
"Depending on the budget [whether to use 3D on future movies]. I think I prefer 3D to 2D now. Also, because of 3D I have to use a digital camera, which is the way it's going anyway. That still confuses me, a digital camera versus film."
"I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!"
"Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras."
"The [35mm] camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life."
"In a strict sense photography can never be abstract, for the camera is incapable of synthetic integration."
"You realize after you travel enough that there's some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it's edited, there's no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there's no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice."
