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  • Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades. -- Michael Patrick Jann
  • The camera follows a young woman as she makes her way through the stands to an area set aside for repentance and conversion. But Jesus' stories imply that far more may be going on out there: beyond that stadium scene, in a place concealed from all camera lenses, a great party has erupted, a gigantic celebration in the unseen world. -- Philip Yancey
  • There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life. -- Richard Jeni
  • Whatever she saw beyond the camera lens, beyond the photographer, beyond anything in the known world probably - wasn't fit to be seen. -- Dennis Lehane
  • The world I feel, within the realm of art, is more genuine than the wrorld of matter. Artistic feeling is not tape measures, spectrographs, or flash camera lens. -- Gu Cheng
  • I know of few actresses who have this incredible talent for communicating with a camera lens. She would try to seduce a camera as if it were a human being. -- Philippe Halsman
  • I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way. -- Gerald Seymour
  • After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques. -- Daniel Barber
  • It's great to get insight into the era of 80's rock-n-roll via a treasure trove of photographs skillfully captured in front of Mark Weiss' camera lens. This event is the perfect time capsule for Mark's work finally being released upon the masses in 2012. -- Phil Collen
  • ... what is faked [by the computerization of image-making], of course, is not reality, but photographic reality, reality as seen by the camera lens. In other words, what computer graphics have (almost) achieved is not realism, but rather only photorealism - the ability to fake not our perceptual and bodily experience of reality but only its photographic image. -- Lev Manovich
  • I think movies say a lot [about real life], even more than theater. It says a lot about the invisible, that movies are so fascinating. The camera lens is like a microscope that goes beyond the surface. It's like you're exploring a secret, so you explore the director's secret, you explore the actor's secret, and therefore you explore the universe's secrets. -- Isabelle Huppert
  • Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera. -- Yousuf Karsh
  • I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens. -- Julian Ovenden
  • It was a hobby I got into a long time ago, hacking cameras. I was able to make my own using different lenses. -- Evan Glodell
  • Among other things, I use a Samsung mobile phone, a very bad quality video camera, and an old Olympus with extremely bad Sigma lenses. -- Alison Jackson
  • I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move. -- Matthew Gray Gubler
  • Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it. -- Joe McNally
  • Warhol was the ultimate voyeur, constantly observing people through the lens. He watched and listened, but did not participate. Behind the camera, Warhol was in control. -- Alison Jackson
  • There isn't really anybody who occupies the lens to the extent that Lindsay Lohan does. Something happens when she steps in front of the camera. There is this magnetic energy. -- Richard Phillips
  • I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things are really important on every shot. -- Roger Deakins
  • For an actor working in television or film, I think it's important to understand how the medium works - how the camera and lenses work and how the sound and the editing works. -- Simon Baker
  • My first experience with film was through a still camera. I would sit, very much against my will, with my father in the game reserve, watching some elephant or rhino or whatever, through a 400 millimeter lens and wait, and waiting and waiting. -- Gavid Hood
  • I think a lot of the time these days people are so concerned about having the right camera and the right film and the right lenses and all the special effects that go along with it, even the computer, that they're missing the key element. -- Herb Ritts
  • The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders. -- Robert Preston
  • I'm not a photographer, so I didn't get into F-stops or ND filters or background, foreground, cross-light, all that stuff. But I was interested in the camera and the lenses. That's the world that I'm moving in, in terms of acting and giving a performance. -- Keanu Reeves
  • ! discovered photography completely by chance. My wife is an architect; when we were young and living in Paris, she bought a camera to take pictures of buildings. For the first time, I looked through a lens - and photography immediately started to invade my life. -- Sebastiao Salgado
  • A visual understanding of great composition and how to use a camera and expensive lenses can be learned, but drive and a real hunger for making photos and telling stories... I don't think that part can be learned. You either have that inside, or you don't. -- Aaron Huey
  • Often as a poet I find that I am somewhat outside an experience I want to hold onto, consciously taking mental notes or writing them down in my journal - for fear that I will forget. It's not unlike being on a trip and taking pictures, your face behind a camera the whole time - the entire experience mediated by a lens. -- Natasha Trethewey
  • Camera's are cheap. It's the lenses that are expensive. -- Jaume Collet-Serra
  • She was like a camera that had been chronically out of focus until someone came by and twisted the lenses into alignment. -- Deborah Harkness
  • I've heard that it's some kind of weird two-lens system where the back camera uses two lenses and it somehow takes it up into DSLR quality imagery. -- John Gruber
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