#mera

You'll never see a good performance out of me, in terms of a character, when the camera isn't rolling. ↗

— Brendan Fehr

#character #good #me #never #out

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona. ↗

— Jane Campion

#front #many #open #persona

I suppose everyone tells little white lies. Quite often they're necessary to make someone feel better or prevent feelings from being hurt. Whoppers? No, that's dangerous and they'll boomerang. ↗

— Richard Chamberlain

#better #boomerang #dangerous #everyone #feel

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. ↗

— Abel Ferrara

#bat #big #camera #creative #film

When I was an actor in some movies a long time ago, I was so curious about all the camera movements - why is the camera placed here, and why does it move like this? And why the set and the background, the color? It's a lot of questions for me to ask, because I was so interested, not only in acting, but also the whole process of filmmaking. ↗

— Stephen Chow

#acting #actor #ago #also #ask

Everything seems really simple on paper until you take a camera out of the box. ↗

— David Fincher

#camera #everything #out #paper #really

My mother's career was over at 40 but she was still trying to be everyone's buddy, always smiling for the cameras. ↗

— Carrie Fisher

#buddy #cameras #career #everyone #mother

I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera. ↗

— Sofia Coppola

#camera #directing #doing #else #everything

In Goodfellas they have this one scene where the camera goes down some steps and walks through a kitchen into a restaurant and the critics were all over this as evidence of the genius of Scorsese and Scorsese is a genius. ↗

— Alex Cox

#critics #down #evidence #genius #goes

A friend of mine - a cameraman at MTV - lost a lot of weight from cycling, and I thought I'd try it, too, thinking whenever you look at a cyclist they all look super-skinny, so hey, why not? But then it turned into such a psychologically satisfying thing. ↗

— Carson Daly

#cycling #cyclist #friend #hey #i