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- Ignore
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- Nov 07, 2020
As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never expected a camera was going to follow all of my moves, and that was surprising when I saw it for the first time.
- First
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- Nov 07, 2020
For my first book, 'New York,' I had one camera and two lenses. It was fotografia povera.
- Nov 07, 2020
The camera introduces us to unconscious optics as does psychoanalysis to unconscious impulses.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether I am on a stage, behind a guitar or in front of a camera, I get paid to misbehave. Fortunately, misbehaviour is something I have unlimited supply of.
- Old
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's such an awkward, strange thing that was concocted, to have auditions. Back in the old days, you'd just have a screen test, and they'd say, 'Oh, you seem natural in front of the camera,' and you'd just go do 10 pictures for Paramount or whatever.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.
- Moment
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's not that easy, but the moment the camera is switched on, I have to mould myself to breathe life into the characters I portray.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.
- First Thing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The actress they'd hired had refused to appear naked in front of the camera. I didn't like to appear naked either, but the first thing I did was take off my clothes and jump into the pool completely naked.
- Gun
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've really learned over the years how to control my adrenaline and let it all out when they shoot the gun versus letting the crowd and the lights and the camera get to me.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was just terrified in front of the camera. I couldn't even say my own name. I walked out of a handful of auditions. I mean, ran out in cold sweats. I was just so nervous and insecure.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
People bring camera phones into comedy shows and clubs and concerts, and sound bites never come out right.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have a great face for camera.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.
- Motion
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- Nov 07, 2020
As with instant replay, NFL Films' use of slow motion, camera angles and the narration of Facenda was not just a technical breakthrough but a conceptual breakthrough.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always viewed myself as a behind-the-scenes person rather than in front of the camera.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a highlight coordinator. My job was to go in and watch games, watch and type. Basically every time the camera frame changed, I had to log it as something: 'Emmitt Smith rushed for 4 yards... Close-up of Jimmy Johnson on the sidelines... 37-yard field goal.'
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm much more comfortable and confident running out on the field in front of 70,000 people instead of standing in front of a camera trying to say some lines. The people who do that as a profession are very talented because it's certainly not easy.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
For film at the beginning of the 20th century, they didn't even know what editing was yet. Actors didn't know how to perform in front of the camera. There wasn't sound.
- Editing
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- Nov 07, 2020
The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.
- Nov 07, 2020
A good browser, apps, good camera, and fast networking in your smartphone is just expected today.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I spent a lot of years just learning my craft and falling down in front of the camera.
- Lights
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was lights, camera, inaction.
- Prefer
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- Nov 07, 2020
I prefer working behind the camera.
- Control
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not in front of the camera, they are. I encourage them; I build up as much of their confidence and ego as possible. They've got to take control; I can't act it out.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been intimidated by the technicalities of taking photos, especially with a film camera - not just a point and shoot.
- Nov 07, 2020
The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.
- Effort
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even if one is not a great actor, just being in front of the camera requires a lot of effort.
- Fake
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.
- Business Side
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm really into both sides of the industry - in front of the camera and behind the camera. I love the business side of it; I love all of the contracts and negotiating and the different connections that you can make.
- Pictures
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pictures are much harder to do than the theater... You're at the mercy of the camera angles and the piecemeal technique.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own.
- Crazy
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I take my camera to shoots and ask all the photographers and assistants to show me what to do with it.
- Friends
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was fifteen years old, my dad won a video camera in a corporate golf tournament. I snatched it from his closet and began filming skateboard videos with my friends.
- Down
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- Nov 07, 2020
I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasn't that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I talk to the camera, mate, it's not like I'm talking to the camera, I'm talking to you because I want to whip you around and plunk you right there with me.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'd like to own a movie camera - a proper one, with film, not a digital thing. Celluloid has more character.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Even my own auntie asked me once if I was pregnant after seeing me on the telly - that's just life on camera.
- Eye
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- Nov 07, 2020
The common ancient ancestor of mulluses and chordates could not possibly have possessed a camera eye, so quite clearly they have evolved independently. The solution has been arrived at by completely different routes.
- Dad
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- Nov 07, 2020
Mum has discreet spontaneity - she has an ease in front of the camera, which comes naturally - whereas dad is a kind of an acting ninja. He attacks you with his acting, which is overwhelming.
- Music
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- Nov 07, 2020
I often wonder when I make a film - I'm thinking of making a film of the Buddha - and I often wonder: If Buddha had all the elements that are given to a director - if he had music, if he had visuals, if he had a video camera - would we get Buddhism better?
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm an actor by choice and I love facing the camera. There's a little bit of exhibitionism in all of us. We like the limelight.
- Pressure
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- Nov 07, 2020
The thing about producing is that the pressure is off of being in front of the camera, and being critiqued and judged in that way, but there are other pressures producing.
- Monk
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my 20s, I was a monk. I was obsessed with theatre, not being famous, not with television. I was 20 years on the stage before I set foot in front of a camera.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I'm on an adult set and I'm in a scene, I am myself. I'm not acting. I am playing to the camera, definitely, but I am myself.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love photography. My boyfriend's got a great camera, which I bought for his birthday.
- Behind
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been involved with all aspects of my careers. Being behind the camera seems as natural as in front.
- Little
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
People are so used to having their lives filmed, they're not even conscious of having cameras around. I still have that sort of suspicion when a camera comes out. I view it as a thing to fear.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was very happy when I was doing my first two films: 'Student No.1', 'Simhadri'. I had absolutely no doubts - I would just place my camera at one point and say, 'That is the right way.'
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
You have no idea what you're passionate about until you give it a shot. If I hadn't been given a guitar or a camera or whatever, I'd be doing something different.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I'll always prefer theater to working in front of the camera. It seems a more distilled form of the craft.
- Artist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm no snapshot artist. I make very careful choices always, even if I'm using a 35mm camera.
- Emotional
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- Nov 07, 2020
You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never do anything for the camera. It's my job to pretend the camera's not there. I'm never moving for the camera.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
If there's a camera on me or off me, it's roughly the same, just a lot less energy.
- Nov 07, 2020
I felt very insecure about whether I was up to recreating my stage 'Fagin' in front of a camera.
- Giving
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- Nov 07, 2020
When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
There was never a day at West Point where I didn't ask myself, 'Where would I put the camera?'
- Now
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm working 2 days a week right now, narration usually on Wed., and host on camera on Friday.
- Chop
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- Nov 07, 2020
Richard Leacock and I ran into a guy who knew how to carve up a camera, and we had him carve one up for us. We had him chop it down and change the gears from metal to plastic, which would cut down on the sound it made when it was running.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
When we made 'Primary,' it was just one camera. We were trying to make ourselves inconspicuous.
- Nov 07, 2020