- Nov 07, 2020
Camera Quotes
On lenses, perception, and life in front of and behind them.
These quotes look at the camera from both sides—the discomfort of being followed by one versus simply having one nearby, and deeper reflections on how the lens shapes our sense of reality.
- Last Updated on Aug 03, 2026
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
Akshay Kumar is always on time. He is always disciplined and hard working but also always entertaining, fun behind the camera and also in front of it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Happy girls are the prettiest,' and to be in the camera frame makes me happy. I just want myself to keep working. I can be in front of the camera for 48 hours continuously without any breaks.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love that I have no inhibitions. I like to be shameless in front of the camera.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
The cast of 'Lemonade Mouth' was picked so perfectly. A lot of people see us as a band on camera, but not a lot of people know that Lemonade Mouth was a band off-camera, too.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
What's so amazing about 'All in the Family' is sometimes an entire act was one camera shot. It was all about characters.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The only interaction I had with my brothers is like negative attention where I'd basically egg them on into beating me up - which was delightful! Otherwise, it was me with a video camera jumping on a bed pretending to be the Ultimate Warrior or setting up my robots making a Transformers movie because I was a lonely kid.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some people are writers and don't ever want to be on camera, some people act and not write - I like writing words for myself to say.
- Guitar
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in the '60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn't that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'll get cast occasionally as sort of the jerk version of myself, and I have fun doing that. But it's really better for everyone if I stay behind the camera.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to stop and look at it?' So in that regard, what I do behind the camera, whether it's still or motion picture, is the same.
- Important
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- Nov 07, 2020
With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020