Genevieve Bujold Quotes

I just love photographing. I don't do it for anyone else.

In real life, I feel tiny and quite embarrassed all the time. But when people come up to me in France and want to talk to Christine, it's okay. It's cool. Because they're really talking about themselves, their own Christines.

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!'

What I do love is the traveling... and getting paid for it! I like being in front of a camera... It's an outlet. It's fun! If you look through my photo album, they are all modeling poses. My mom was a young mom, so she took tons of pictures of me.

Writing is my profession. Photography is my hobby.

I was extremely irritated being photographed for a long time, then I gave up caring. Photography is a nauseating cliche, but there is a lot to it. You can tell so much about a person from it. You are exaggerating the consciousness. It's life-thickening, photography.

I've always been more of a camera hog than anything, and it's just another way to get it all out!

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

When you put a camera in front of me, I'm home.

Photography was a blessing because it filled my time. If I had to start over, I'd pursue photography - probably to the exclusion of acting.

America saw me as a projection of me that I always wanted. That's why I love going to America so much. I feel like I started off in America exactly how I wanted to start everywhere.

When it comes to the camera, I can do my thing. But I'm bashful.

I like having my picture taken and being a glamorous person. Sometimes when I find myself getting impatient, I just remember the times I cried my eyes out because nobody wanted to take my picture at the Trocadero.

I have people in my life who will say, 'Honey, you're trying too hard.' I like being saucy, but I'm 73 and a half. I'm still trying to find my way between matronly and coltishness.

You go from nobody looking at you to people taking second looks. I remember really loving it - and then feeling so guilty for loving it. Like, 'That's gross, Kristen.' Also, telling myself it could go away at any moment, and I'd be so sad.

Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.

I still love to look at photographs but I couldn't do it myself anymore.

When I was a teenager, I loved photography and writing.

My friends love this idea of me as half man, half camera.

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

Photography helps people to see.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

I love to take, process and share photos - it fills me up.

For young boys, just to know you exist in any capacity is a strong feeling.