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The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.

I don’t need interesting camera angles, I am interesting.

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.

The camera could be a very powerful instrument against discrimination, against poverty, against racism.

The camera makes you forget you’re there. It’s not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see.

Beauty, you’re under arrest. I have a camera, and I’m not afraid to use it.

The modest youth somehow knows just what to do for the cameras.

I’m trying to use the camera to get into people’s heads. I use camera techniques a lot to articulate character.

Raksin worked for Alfred Hitchcock, about whom one of the most famous Raksin anecdotes was spoken. The legendary director declared he wanted no music at all for the oceanic Lifeboat, because he felt audiences would wonder where the music was coming from in the middle of the sea. Raksin said, Ask Hitch where the cameras are coming from.

In an ideal world, I’d be able to do my shows in my pajamas. Luckily I’ve got one of the best stylists in the business, Rebecca Allen – she knows what looks good on camera and gives it a sexy kick.

I’ve always loved, as an Aussie, comedy is part of my life. My friends and I are always ribbing each other and that’s how we get through the days. When it comes to cameras rolling and getting that timing right, the only way to do it and do it well is to throw yourself into it.

The camera was waiting for me by predestination and I took to it as a musician takes to the piano or a painter to canvas. I found that I was master of the elements, that I could work miracles.

There are always more questions. Science as a process is never complete. It is not a foot race, with a finish line…. People will always be waiting at a particular finish line: journalists with their cameras, impatient crowds eager to call the race, astounded to see the scientists approach, pass the mark, and keep running. It’s a common misunderstanding, he said. They conclude there was no race. As long as we won’t commit to knowing everything, the presumption is we know nothing.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.

I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

Film has always been hard for me, I’m basically a stage actress. I never felt comfortable in front of the camera.

I still need the camera because it is the only reason anyone is talking to me.

People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I’m with or without cameras.

Beyond the rudiments, it is up to the artist to create art, not the camera.

Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‘Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.’ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.

It rubs me the wrong way, a camera… It’s a frightening thing…Cameras make ghosts out of people.

The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor’s face? What else should we be looking at?

If it’s stage, the two most important artists are the actor and the playwright. If it’s film, THE most important person is the director. The director says where the camera goes.

You realize after you travel enough that there’s some things that, no matter how good you are at making television, no matter how good your cameras are, how well it’s edited, there’s no way the lenses could have captured the moment, and there’s no way you will ever be able to write about it and do it justice.

Sometimes when these kinds of things happen, it can seem a little bit too much to bear. But what I want the people of Louisiana know is that you’re not alone on this. Even after the TV cameras leave, the whole country is going to continue to support you and help you until we get folks back in their homes and lives are rebuilt.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I’m not thinking about the camera and that it’s second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

Really good portraiture is a two-way street where someone is throwing little gems out and you’re grabbing them. Very few people have a 100 percent fluency in being able to do to do this – this kind of magical reaction with a camera.

Like, she had a caterer, she had wardrobe people, she had two makeup artists… I mean, we have makeup and we have wardrobe, but Felicia [Day] was, like, on it. She had two cameras operating, sets, extras everywhere. It was unbelievable. I don’t know what her budget was or is, but she had sponsors for her show, and we don’t have a sponsor yet, so basically, the difference is, our moms make our costumes.

I think what I loved in cinema – and what I mean by cinema is not just films, but proper, classical cinema – are the extraordinary moments that can occur on screen. At the same time, I do feel that cinema and theater feed each other. I feel like you can do close-up on stage and you can do something very bold and highly characterized – and, dare I say, theatrical – on camera. I think the cameras and the viewpoints shift depending on the intensity and integrity of your intention and focus on that.

I hate crowds and making speeches. I hate facing cameras and having to answer to a crossfire of questions. Why popular fancy should seize upon me, a scientist, dealing in abstract things and happy if left alone, is a manifestation of mass psychology that is beyond me.

There are times when you want your privacy, when you don’t want the cameras in your face capturing your every move, every tear, every look. But I’ve gotten used to it.