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Donnie Darko' was my first audition ever! It opened my eyes to the possibilities within camera work. -- Jolene Purdy
Really, voice-over is great. If it paid as much as on camera work, it's all I'd ever do. -- Diedrich Bader
I think the theater work and the on-camera work feed off each other. My theater work has become more simple, and my on-camera work has become more energized or more spontaneous. -- Michael Stuhlbarg
If I find a comedy club where no one's camera works, I'll go. -- Chris Rock
A lot of movies try to set up a world with cool sets, costumes, camera work. In Brick, the world is born from the words. -- Joseph Gordon-Levitt
I like to do the camera work myself because I kind of feel it, you know, I don't articulate it, I feel it. It's the same with editing. -- Nina Menkes
The first time I saw 'Private Practice,' I was hooked. The camera work is captivating, the acting is the-best-of-the-best amazing, and each storyline is so interesting and different. -- Rachel G. Fox
I'm kind of a tech geek. With the camera work, I chose to shoot super 16, which has a real tactile feel. I feel it's as authentic as possible; I love the way the grain feels. -- Ryan Coogler
Theres a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera, and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them. -- Corey Reynolds
There's a subtleness to camera work. You can really create intimate moments on camera, and sometimes that requires a little more precision from an actor because you have to pull people in as opposed to throwing it to them. -- Corey Reynolds
The writer must be a participant in the scene... like a film director who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work, and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least the main character. -- Hunter S. Thompson
In all my documentaries I did all the camera work, but in fiction I didn't want to do it myself. I think the machinery is so heavy and demanding that you would leave the actors alone for a long time. -- Pirjo Honkasalo
This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image. -- Julian Schnabel
I like anything with a live audience. I love sitcom work. I hope it comes back in fashion because I really love it. I love single-camera work, too, but in a different way than that live-audience thing, which is really exciting. -- Ana Gasteyer
One of the things about working for an old school studio like Warner Bros. is that there is an institutional culture and institutional memory, in terms of production design, camera work, and directors who understand how to do this kind of thing. -- Bruno Heller
Some of the downbeat pictures, in my opinion, should never be made at all. Most of them are made for personal satisfaction, to impress other actors who say: "Oh, God! what a shot, what camera work!" But the average person in the audience, who bought his ticket to be entertained, doesn't see that at all. He comes out depressed. -- Doris Day
I don't really know how to work a camera. -- Zoe Sugg
I remember thinking, I want to work for the camera. -- Brendan Fraser
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument. -- Mike Figgis
My heroes are the camera crew and the electricians. They work such long hours. -- Adam Baldwin
I come from Venezuela, from the independent film arena, and you work with one camera. -- Edgar Ramirez
John Kerry was always in front of the camera but not out doing the hard work. -- Mitt Romney
I think that I need to work on being comfortable at being normal, everyday-ish on camera. -- Christina Ricci
When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera. -- Patrick Demarchelier
I knew from early on I would go to film school and try to work behind the camera. -- Jonathan Ke Quan
I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many; the camera alone would be enough. -- Alfred Eisenstaedt
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it. -- Denzel Washington
When you work with kids, especially, you want to be ready to turn the camera on at a moment's notice. -- Clint Eastwood
I feel that doing theater does give you a good grounding to work on camera. The audience is the lens. -- Julian Ovenden
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone. -- Richard Avedon
Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera. -- Alfred Molina
The fruit flies we work with have the equivalent of about a 25 by 25 pixel camera. But that camera is very, very fast, about 10 times faster than the human visual system. -- Michael Dickinson
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
It's fun to watch a true-blue movie star at work. They're really unbelievably charismatic. They understand camera angles... -- Ana Gasteyer
When I have hiring power, I try to work with women in my camera crew as much as possible. -- Elle Schneider
The key to my work is that I stopped, physically, to observe something. I raised my camera and recorded my observations. -- Julius Shulman
I don't want to direct music videos at all. Any work I do with a camera I'd like to be for a film. -- Giuseppe Andrews
I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off. -- David Zucker
Life is like a camera. Focus on what's important. Capture the good times. And if things don't work out, just take another shot. -- Ziad K. Abdelnour
Women that can work a camera with ease often work men just as effortlessly for both require the same commitment to vanity and manipulation. -- Tiffany Madison
I was in the movies. I danced, I sang, I learned to work in front of a camera. It was like being in a repertory company. -- Robert Wagner
If the guy behind the camera is not good, the pictures are bad. It's still you, and it's the same lines and everything, but it doesn't work. -- Vincent Cassel
I love the work, I love being in front of the camera and working with actors and directors and creating something. For me, it's like learning everyday. -- Estella Warren
I was trained in the theater, so I really learned a lot about how to work with the camera, just technically speaking, it's been an amazing learning curve. -- Abby Brammell
I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off since I was 12 years-old with my dad's 8-millimeter movie camera. -- Steven Spielberg
I think at this point, I'd eventually like to work behind the camera. That's not to say I would never act again, I'm not quite sure to be honest. -- Jonathan Taylor Thomas
I choose to work behind the camera. And I kind of want to make the work and then run away. The presentation of myself really feels complicated for me. -- Zoe Leonard
Usually I work with a digital camera and compose my works digitally or give them a finish on the computer, in order to make them meet my ideas perfectly. -- Loretta Lux
Obviously, from the experience you get from making videos, you understand where the camera is and how some of the actual technicalities work and so on and so forth. -- Shirley Manson

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