#camera

I discovered the 7th art at home when I was kid, through Charlie Chaplin's movies and those of my father who shot documentaries. He was my biggest influence. So I took his camera and started shooting. ↗

— Lasse Hallstrom

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Of the thousands of people, celebrated and unknown, who have sat before my camera, I am often asked who was the most difficult subject, or the easiest, or which picture is my favorite. This last question is like asking a mother which child she likes the most. ↗

— Philippe Halsman

#asked #asking #before #camera #celebrated

To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#photography #guns

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#camera #photography #artists

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that. ↗

— John Dykstra

#camera #concepts #doing #george #george lucas

We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised. ↗

— John Sayles

#bring #camera #hope #i #just

At the end of Requiem all I wanted to do was get a DV camera and just do a small film. But then the hunger comes back. ↗

— Darren Aronofsky

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Saturate yourself with your subject and the camera will all but take you by the hand. ↗

— Margaret Bourke-White

#hand #saturate #subject #take #will

You're gonna have to learn to get out there in front of those cameras and hold your head up. Take charge when you're singing. ↗

— Patsy Cline

#charge #front #get #gonna #head

I was born in front of a camera and really don't know anything else. ↗

— Joan Crawford

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