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Cameras in court are just messengers; don't blame them, blame the participants. -- Greta Van Susteren
It's a heavy weight, the camera. Now we have modern and lightweight, small plastic cameras, but in the '70s they were heavy metal. -- Annie Leibovitz
If I went to them all dressed up and flashed a nice smile for the cameras it would probably be easier for me to get work. But I just can't tolerate it. -- Charlie Hunnam
Cameras intrigued me. -- Garry Winogrand
Cameras get in the way of seeing. -- Le Corbusier
Cameras don't take pictures, people take pictures. -- Michael Lesy
Cameras aren't guns. They can't really hurt you. -- Matthew McConaughey
One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. -- Dorothea Lange
Cameras in classrooms are no substitute for greater authority by parents and teachers. -- Paul Weyrich
I hate cameras. They are so much more sure than I am about everything. -- John Steinbeck
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera. -- Dorothea Lange
The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it! -- Ansel Adams
I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me. -- Annie Leibovitz
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it. -- Whitney Houston
Sometimes in golf I've got 10,000 people watching me. Cameras are easy. Doing the Jay Leno show was easy. -- Matt Kuchar
Cameras always were seductive. And then a darkroom became available, and that's when I stopped doing anything else. -- Garry Winogrand
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. -- Yousuf Karsh
It rubs me the wrong way, a camera... It's a frightening thing...Cameras make ghosts out of people. -- Bob Dylan
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. -- Alfred Eisenstaedt
A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet. -- Orson Welles
People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't. -- William Hurt
...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms. -- Jim Morrison
Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.' -- Stanley Nelson Jr.
Cameras are like dogs, but dumb, and toward quarry, even more faithful. They point, they render, and defy the photographer who hopes. -- Tod Papageorge
We're the new power, come to replace the old. Cameras in the head, children with microchips, spin doctors rewriting reality as it happens. -- Grant Morrison
Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look. -- Dan Quayle
Cameras, in short, were clocks for seeing, and perhaps in me someone very old still hears in the photographic mechanism the living sound of the wood. -- Roland Barthes
When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom. -- John Sexton
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi. -- Alan Parsons
Shooting digitally would not have been easier. Cameras are the same size. I always shoot on film unless I have a reason not to, which I haven't had yet. -- Jaume Collet-Serra
Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers. -- Pat Conroy
I admire a person who, for the love of art, is able to take off their clothes in front of a camera. But I'm not capable, I'm too cowardly for that. -- Shakira
Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a camera and some film and make a movie of any kind at all. -- Stanley Kubrick
The creative act lasts but a brief moment, a lightning instant of give-and-take, just long enough for you to level the camera and to trap the fleeting prey in your little box. -- Henri Cartier-Bresson
You know, everyone says, 'Modeling and acting are so similar'... they say, 'It's so natural for models to become actresses because they use the camera.' I don't think of it in that way. -- Gisele Bundchen
My dream concept is that I have a camera and I am trying to photograph what is essentially invisible. And every once in a while I get a glimpse of her and I grab that picture. -- Leonard Nimoy
Cameras and lenses are simply tools to place our unique vision on film. Concentrate on equipment and you'll take technically good photographs. Concentrate on seeing the light's magic colors and your images will stir the soul. -- Jack Dykinga
I was extravagant in the matter of cameras - anything photographic - I had to have the best. But that was to further my work. In most things I have gone along with the plainest - or without. -- Edward Weston
So now what happens is the cameras follow me around and capture exactly what I've been doing since I was a boy. Only now we have a team of, you know, like 73 of us, and it's gone beyond that. -- Steve Irwin
You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set. -- Sheryl Lee
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera they'll be able to take better photographs. A better camera won't do a thing for you if you don't have anything in your head or in your heart. -- Arnold Newman
We had the guys from X Men 2 do the cameras. They had a 360 camera that would go from one car, up in the air and over to another car in a continuous shot while the film was still rolling, going 90 mph. -- Jimmy Fallon
The problem for me is that I've never actually studied photography, so it's quite a steep learning curve. Cameras these days do so much for you automatically but I still think there's a point where you should actually know the technical side. -- Graeme Le Saux
A camera is wild in just about anybody's hands, therefore one must set limits. But cameras have a life of their own. Cameras care nothing about cults or isms. They are indifferent mechanical eyes, ready to devour anything in sight. They are lenses of the unlimited reproduction. -- Robert Smithson
Cameras help to minimize collateral damage, and very often, without a camera a missile cannot fire. Certainly, without a camera a drone can't function, which means that the very ways in which we wage war are determined in part by how cameras work and whether they work at all. -- Judith Butler
Cameras began duplicating the world at that moment when the human landscape started to undergo a vertiginous rate of change: while an untold number of forms of biological and social life are being destroyed in a brief span of time, a device is available to record what is disappearing. -- Susan Sontag
Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around. -- Michael Stipe
Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras? -- Brigitte Bardot
Cars and cameras are the two things I let myself be materialistic about. I don't care about other stuff. -- Louis C. K.
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. -- Richard Avedon
An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras. -- Donnie Yen
I just think that we're living in a world where the technology is advancing so rapidly. You're having cameras that are capable of more and more - the resolution on cameras is jumping up. -- Peter Jackson
And I'm sure after Facebook it will be the little cameras that we have implanted into the palms of our hands and we'll be debating whether we should get them, and then we'll all get them. -- Jesse Eisenberg
Then again, they're not scripted and I feel it's virtually impossible to be anything but yourself when you're in front of the cameras and cooking so there is a measure of truth in what you see. -- Nigella Lawson
I think I learned discipline on 'Jane Eyre.' Charlotte Bronte's dialogue, the intellectual duel between Rochester and Jane Eyre's character, is so compelling that you didn't have to do much with the placement of cameras. -- Cary Fukunaga
With portable cameras and affordable data and non-linear digital editing, I think this is a golden age of documentary filmmaking. These new technologies mean we can make complicated, beautifully crafted and cinematic films about real-life stories. -- Lucy Walker
If you can remain true to the people who know you the best and not be sidetracked by the flashing lights and glimmering of the cameras, it's like, just being down-to-earth and just kind of staying real. -- Summer Altice
Police in Washington D.C. are now using cameras to catch drivers who go through red lights. Many congressmen this week opposed the use of the red light cameras incorrectly assuming they were being used for surveillance at local brothels. -- Dennis Miller
Joanna points her camera at a section of society unused to having cameras pointed at it. But I don't know about categorizing them in terms of class; I'm a bit wary of that. My dad is the son of a shipbuilder. -- Tom Hiddleston
Most of the planet's terrestrial surfaces are visually accessible through video cameras and satellite imagery, if not physically within reach. Even the approaches to Mount Everest are now littered with human debris. One can drive to Timbuktu, which for centuries was synonymous with inaccessibility. -- Alan Huffman
I agreed to film after my rookie year in Golden State. I was more used to cameras and felt that my journey to the NBA was a story worth sharing. Little did we know how much bigger the platform and documentary would become after Linsanity. -- Jeremy Lin
The viral power of online media has proven how fast creative ideas can be spread and adopted, using tools like cellphones, digital cameras, micro-credit, mobile banking, Facebook, and Twitter. A perfect example? The way the Green Movement in Iran caught fire thanks to social media. -- Tina Brown
Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras making production less cumbersome. Social media is allowing self-distribution, and girl groups like Spark Summit are leading the way in calling for fewer Photoshop image alterations of girls in print media. -- Sharon Lawrence
Historically, privacy was almost implicit, because it was hard to find and gather information. But in the digital world, whether it's digital cameras or satellites or just what you click on, we need to have more explicit rules - not just for governments but for private companies. -- Bill Gates
Oh, who am I trying to kid? It's a madhouse. The minute those cameras go off, things just explode, everyone is just at each other in one way or another, in closets or cat fights here and there. It's nuts. You know, I can't be a part of it. -- Richard Dean Anderson
I hate cameras. I hate cameras and I hate camera phones. The camera's my worst enemy and my best friend. It's the way I convey my emotions to the world without saying a word, so I use it. People always say, 'You come alive as soon as the camera's on!' -- Nicki Minaj
Technology is supposed to make our lives easier, allowing us to do things more quickly and efficiently. But too often it seems to make things harder, leaving us with fifty-button remote controls, digital cameras with hundreds of mysterious features and book-length manuals, and cars with dashboard systems worthy of the space shuttle. -- James Surowiecki
Should there be cameras everywhere in outdoor streets? My personal view is having cameras in inner cities is a very good thing. In the case of London, petty crime has gone down. They catch terrorists because of it. And if something really bad happens, most of the time you can figure out who did it. -- Bill Gates
I'm not someone who enjoys long talks, long rehearsals. I'm very technical: I tell my actors, you come in, you sit down, you pick up a coffee, you look here, you say the line. We try it with the cameras rolling, and if it doesn't work, we adjust it until it does. It's very simple. -- Michael Haneke
I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation. -- Dianna Agron
Insane means fewer cameras! -- Ally Carter
We're not cameras, we're artists. -- Frank Bruno
Feelin' guilty, feelin' scared, hidden cameras everywhere. -- Ray Davies
Life ain't no rehearsal, the cameras always rolling. -- Drake
I love to snowboard with no cameras: 100 percent. -- Travis Rice
Ironically, I don't like having cameras in my face. -- Margot Robbie
No photographer is better than the simplest of cameras -- Edward Weston
I would never invite cameras into my life again. -- Jessica Simpson
My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them. -- James Nares
I'm going to miss my best friends - my cameras. -- Craig Kilborn
My brother then bought 1000 Japanese cameras. They all go, "Crick". -- Henny Youngman
Everybody knows that only creeps put cameras in the bathroom. -- Tucker Carlson
I used to like doing karaoke until cell-phone cameras came along. -- Fred Schneider
I like digital cameras, because they enable you to reminisce immediately. -- Demetri Martin
I'm very interested in directing actors - many directors direct cameras. -- Richard Marquand
The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras. -- Mason Cooley
I use an 8 x 10 view camera. All other cameras are just toys. -- Jock Sturges
It's usually when the cameras leave that the support leaves as well. -- Petra Nemcova
I've learned to hate it when the cameras are pointed at me. -- Jake Lloyd
As long as cameras are around no artist will be free of bewilderment. -- Robert Smithson
We live in a bizarre world - there are cameras in our house! -- Nick Lachey
The truth is, unlike TV and film cameras, the theater stage doesn't add 10 pounds. -- Sara Ramirez
I can't even tell you the anxiety I get from being around those cameras! -- Zach Woodlee
We don't take pictures with cameras, we take them with our hearts and minds. -- Arnold Newman
I play a role in front of the cameras, just like in the movies. -- Eva Herzigova
Using iPads as cameras, for example, is like taking pictures with a cafeteria tray. -- Brian Williams
Probably one of the worst things that happened to photography is that cameras have viewfinders. -- John Baldessari
I love cameras but I find myself reluctantly taking pictures because what's past is past. -- William Shatner
People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras. -- Anthony Bourdain
Every video from Russia is depressing, it's like they have their cameras set to sad. -- Daniel Tosh
I'm dying to get back in front of the cameras. I miss it like crazy. -- Holly Valance
It was a nightmare having cameras in the house 10 hours a day for a month. -- Kathy Griffin
Reality has come to seem more and more like what we are shown by cameras. -- Susan Sontag
I enjoy the attention. I like the cameras. In a way, they make me play better. -- Michelle Wie
Once you're on the set and shooting, it's all just cinema. You have actors and cameras. -- Philippe Falardeau
Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer -- Ken Jennings
I'm just grateful I didn't have to spend my early 20s in front of paparazzi cameras. -- Amy Adams
Nothing we do is ever going unnoticed. It's on CCTV cameras, it's on iphones, it's everywhere. -- Anastasia Griffith
Unfortunately, too many public school officials believe that cameras are needed to enforce order and discipline. -- Paul Weyrich
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars. -- Henry Rollins
In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one. -- Orson Welles
You can do things in twin scenes now you couldn't before. You can implement actual moving cameras. -- Edward Norton
There are cameras nowadays that have been developed to tell the difference between a squirrel and a bomb. -- George W. Bush
Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras. -- Ansel Adams
We're all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore. -- Richard Engel
Were all bloggers and punks and rebels with cameras. There is absolutely no respect for career journalists anymore. -- Richard Engel
People are fascinated, for whatever reason, by human drama, and the idea that cameras are capturing ambient stories. -- Jonathan Nolan
I am going to get officers training to deescalate situations, ban racial profiling, and make body cameras available. -- Hillary Clinton
People like Chris Nolan are shooting isolated sequences in IMAX. Those cameras are the size of a Volkswagen. -- Steven Soderbergh
The cameras were electronic monsters, moving with them as they walked and staring with one big, perverted eye. -- Chelsie Shock

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