Best Camera Quotes to Inspire, Uplift & Motivate You Every Day

“It's unfortunate that a lot of the time in documentaries, the camera person isn't a personality. That's such a wasted opportunity.”

“I had started off, before I ever got an acting job, working at Robert De Niro's Tribeca Productions as a reader. I was always interested in that side of the camera.”

“Everyone has days where they wake up and feel like poo and don't want to see people, let alone be on camera.”

“Looking into the camera creates a special eye and soul contact.”

“I think, if you put a camera in anyone's life and document it daily from the age of 21 to 27, there are going to be things that aren't always pretty.”

“Having a camera in your home is difficult when you aren't in a good mood!”

“Before GoPro, if you wanted to have any footage of yourself doing anything, whether it's video or photo, you not only needed a camera, you needed another human being. And if you wanted the footage to be good, you needed that other human being to have skill with the camera.”

“I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.”

“Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.”

“There's no difference between rocking in front of a crowd or rocking in front of a camera.”

“The stage and working in front of a camera are two completely different mediums. Each requires different techniques.”

“The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.”

“It's only when I faced the camera that I realised how confident I was on screen!”

“I work very hard on my body, and I'm not just known for my six-pack or my body. I also believe that I have pretty good camera presence.”

“My father came to Hyderabad to become an actor, took an acting course, and realised he was camera conscious.”

“It had rained on some vivid green ferns in Maine and it was quite beautiful. I was moving the camera slightly and studying the ground glass. Looking at those 20 square inches, trying to find out just what were the right elements to include.”

“The great thing about 'Fargo' is that it's a more objective style of filmmaking: the camera moves in very classical ways, and the most interesting things normally are the characters.”

“I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.”

“If I feel myself about to do something stupid, I have to think twice. To me, everybody has a camera. Everybody is a reporter.”

“With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.”

“Akshay Kumar is always on time. He is always disciplined and hard working but also always entertaining, fun behind the camera and also in front of it.”

“When we film the TV show, it's with a hidden camera so we don't get to see how fans react to what we are doing and when fans watch it at home.”

“I did a lot of theater, so especially as an on-camera camera actor, there are so many things that aren't in your toolbox. They're somebody else's job. You think about editors and rhythm. Volume isn't even in your control.”

“I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.”

“A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.”

“I'm so entranced by what unfolds in front of the camera. It seems wonderfully out of my control.”

“I know it's not particularly tech-savvy of me to suggest a camera that doesn't have a touchscreen, but I think when it comes to candid shots of nights out with friends, there's nothing better than a disposable camera.”

“I enjoy the feeling of standing in front of the camera.”

“I can very much look into the camera and say, 'I believe Donald Trump is a racist.' You don't get to make textbook racist remarks for a year and not be a racist. You don't get to make textbook sexist remarks for a year and not be a misogynist.”

“There are two industry secrets to surviving a long day on camera on the red carpet: First, no drinking the night before - ever. You can celebrate after with some bubbly. Second is make sure to use shoe insoles. I don't care if you are a guy or a girl, dress shoes are painful. Worth it, but painful.”

“David Blaine, I think, was the first TV magician to really turn the camera around and make it about the spectator's experience. That's really what magic is all about.”

“You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.”

“On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there.”

“I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.”

“When I was a kid, I'd create my own movies at home. I'd record myself doing a scene, then stop the camera, change my clothes, and do a scene as another character. It sounds silly, but I just loved to tell stories.”

“Talent is out there. But sometimes it doesn't work. You're going to find people who you think are wonderful, and the minute you turn on the camera, they just don't understand the concept of acting.”

“Stick a camera up in an Indian village, and thousands of people come to watch.”

“I love being in front of the camera.”

“After dubbing my lines for the first time, I'd say it's more difficult than performing in front of the camera.”

“I always wanted to be a writer and the logical way to do that was journalism. I took up a course in Manipal; during a course in television journalism, I got my hands on a camera.”

“Low-budget movies is fine for me, I have no qualms about it, but when you want to do something - build a spaceship, or do a crane shot - and you look at everybody, and go, 'We'll just put the camera over here instead,' that's a shame, because enough of that happens and you get a little worn down.”

“I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense - I want the director to see what I'm trying to do.”

“I'm an actor by choice and I love facing the camera. There's a little bit of exhibitionism in all of us. We like the limelight.”

“You never learn to act in front of a camera. You never learn anything in front of a camera. But you learn to act in a rehearsal room with a good play and a good cast and a good director.”

“The camera, I hate it. That's something I need to endure while working as an actor. In the end, because of fame, Gong Yoo exists. It's the driving force that keeps me going.”

“I am a product of theatre and whatever I learned there helped me emote in front of the camera.”

“I don't think I knew that much about camera placement and working with actors when we did 'Half Nelson.'”

“I was in Calcutta and my parents had an offer for me to feature in Falguni Pathak's music video, produced by Universal Music. I was in Class 9 then, and pleaded to decline the offer because I was too shy. My parents explained that it was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. I was in tears because I was too shy and conscious in front of the camera.”

“The director can't do your job for you. He can't get in front of the camera and perform your part.”

“Over and over again-in the movie, I have nine different people who have worked for Fox News network who have come forward and talked on camera, three of them anonymously, by the way.”

“I do have a concern about projecting. I've never projected or had any reason to project before. In fact, the camera has only gotten closer to me going from TV to film.”

“I prefer working behind the camera.”

“My role, or anyone's role in network news, is to make the person on camera look good. You don't do that, you don't work there.”

“To have an opportunity to get in front of a camera every single day is just priceless because it gets you closer and closer to being less self-consciousness in front of it and really being human and really making choices and standing by them.”

“I'm clearly not meant to be in front of the camera. I'm really not meant for anything but behind the camera.”

“I always hated how I looked on camera. I never put a face to my music, which actually made the music that much more mysterious.”

“When you're modeling you're actually acting for the camera and the photographer. It's more fun, too because there are no lines to memorize.”

“In the editing room, 20 percent of the time you're using stuff from before the actor knew the camera was rolling or you're taking a line from somewhere else and putting it in his mouth.”

“Personally, I don't like to talk too much to the actors about the camera choices because I feel like the way I want them to perform is as if it feels very rooted in the real world and that I'm essentially stepping back and just watching and hoping they feel safe with me watching.”

“Practicing going over scenes and in front of the camera just to see how that feels, and then ultimately just finding a way to expose yourself to people. That's what I did.”

“I always wanted to do something related to the camera. When you are young, these are dreams you feel embarrassed talking about. You don't want to be made fun of. That would leave a scar on an young mind.”

“Glass is the world's worst spy camera. If you want to surreptitiously take photos, I would not use Glass.”

“I don't need to spend money on school when I can just do it myself. I have pretty much everything I need with a camera and some funny friends.”

“The camera is the slave to the actor.”

“Even though I was playing myself on 'NCIS,' it was so cool to see how everything works behind a camera.”

“I'm trying to learn things behind the camera and what a producer does and shadowing the directors.”

“Actors' performances in films are enhanced in a million different ways, down to the choice of camera shot by the director - whether it's in slow motion or whether it's quick cut - or... the choice of music behind the close-up or the costume that you're wearing or the makeup.”

“I would definitely stay in the business, be behind the camera maybe.”

“I was so besotted with '8½' that, when it was on TV, I used to take pictures with my 35-mm. camera of the frames of the film. That was the first time I'd ever really seen Italians on screen.”

“At the beginning, Edo was a photographer, and I was more of a talent scout and doing styling and modelling. Then all of a sudden, in 1977, he gave me a Polaroid camera, and I discovered that instead of having to go to a lab and develop the film, I could just take a click and get a picture! It was genius, and I was very good at manipulating it.”

“The camera is not the instrument. People are always the instrument.”

“I was confident while facing the camera because I was comfortable in front of a live audience.”

“Actually, I would love to make a music video. Maybe it would finally put to rest those persistent rumours that have followed me throughout my career - particularly when I was on camera performing - that I had died.”

“You know the famous quote, sometimes you have to be ready so you don't have to get ready. I do a lot of things that, it's like, off the camera, that a lot of people don't see me do.”

“Damnation' and 'Dublin Murders' are the first lead roles I've gotten to do. The more time you spend in front of the camera, the more you begin to relax in front of it.”

“When you're so used to operating the camera, it's an extension of your eye and your heart and your head.”

“The film 'Richard's Things' was my first time in front of a camera. It was scary but great fun.”

“When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me.”

“If I stand correctly in the mirror I can frame it so that I still have hair. But the camera doesn't lie.”

“The guys you see me bring home, we're only cuddling and making out like any other person would do, but we're on camera and the whole world's seeing it, and it does look like I'm having sex.”

“When I started getting in front of the camera a lot, I think my confidence started to come out.”

“I am in love with the idea of doing a movie in 3D. I think 3D would be great in a kind of realistic normal story without throwing objects to the camera, but using the 3D on the emotions in an intimate story.”

“When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.”

“And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.”

“The less the camera is able to capture what you're seeing in a scene, the more editing it needs.”

“If I enter a set, I am all over the place and be in my zone once the camera is on.”

“I used to get very nervous and couldn't even pronounce my name in front of my camera.”

“Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.”

“I want to be taken seriously: I can cook, I do have qualifications, OK, I do make mistakes, but I want to show that on camera. I'm not perfect. I'm someone who works hard, who is serious about what they're doing. It's substance over style.”

“There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.”

“When I chose to do 'Carrie,' I never had done anything on camera before. I was always onstage, so everything surprised me. Just going on set and walking into a makeup trailer and seeing Chloe Moretz and Julianne Moore - 'Wow, I am part of this ensemble.'”

“It was a scene I was really looking forward to, and one that I embraced, and when we were filming it, George got closer and closer and closer with that camera - he was practically up my nose for the final shot. So I knew it was a moment that I had to do my best to get right.”

“Hidden camera shows were coming back around 2010, so we got together one night and we said, 'What's our version of a hidden camera show?'”

“On a serious note, I just enjoy exploring the unconventional. I like Alfred Hitchcock; I actually grew up watching his films. A thriller gives you much more scope of exhibiting creativity in terms of playing with the camera and sound, as against a typical love story.”

“What I've learned is that the camera can get right into your soul, and you have to be ready for it.”

“Actors have to learn that they are as important to a movie as the camera is, as important as the sound is, and less important than the script is.”

“Being on a show like 'Fear the Walking Dead,' I started to learn more about camera work, learn more about the way the crew operates, and had more of a stronger opinion on how I think a television director can operate in the healthiest way.”

“My main camera is a Nikon D3. I use a French camera from the 1800s for wet plate photography, I use a Hasselblad sometimes. But to me the camera really doesn't matter that much. I don't have a preference for film or digital.”

“I like doing as many special effects in camera, as much as possible.”

“I love my camera crews on all my jobs. It's the half of the job that the audience never gets to see. They're integral. They're as much a part of making a movie or television show as I am.”