Joss Whedon Quotes

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

I never work with a screen. Other photographers have this black thing around, and they go back and look at it. I'd rather spend the time with the subject, photographing or discussing or talking, than staring at this thing. I'd rather look at what's going on.

I've always been interested in photography. I remember when I was about 14, I spent an entire summer selling lottery tickets in some little booth so I could make enough money to buy an Olympus camera.

There was a camera club at Columbia, where I was taking a painting course. And when I went down, somebody showed me how to use the stuff. That's all. I haven't done anything else since then, It was as simple as that. I fell into the business.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

Glamour really has to do with good lighting, doesn't it?

The camera gives you some control.

If I knew how to take a good photograph, I'd do it every time.

He owned an expensive camera that required thought before you pressed the shutter, and I quickly became his favorite subject, round-faced, missing teeth, my thick bangs in need of a trim. They are still the pictures of myself I like best, for they convey that confidence of youth I no longer possess, especially in front of a camera.

You can't point a camera at someone and find out what's in their head. But it does the next best thing - it lets you speculate.

I am a camera, with its shutter open. Someday, all of this will be developed, printed, fixed.

The camera adds a certain sheen to things. Something about being frozen in time really makes things sparkle.

I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.

At the other end of the room, Grandma had the lid up on Larry Lipinski. She was standing one foot on a folding chair, one foot on the edge of the casket, and she was taking pictures with a disposable camera.

I don't care how you photograph - use the kitchen mop if you must, but if the product is not true to the laws of photography... you have produced something that is dead. (1923)

When gifts are given to me through my camera, I accept them graciously.

I often say I've spent more time with photography than I have with literature just in terms of hours.

If you walk across my camera I will flash the world your story.

The candid camera is the greatest liar in the photographic family.... It is anarchic, naïve, and superficial.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

The camera is my means to internalize those fleeting epiphanies that I was having in my life.

Do you have a camera?" Jackson asked. "We could get some pictures and may be take a print or two if we're lucky." Jonas shook his head. "We'd probably get a bunch of ghosts and that would just freak me out.

Photography has been a passion of mine since I was 15.

With a camera, one has to love individual cases.

Cameras are a lifesaver for very shy people who have nowhere else to hide. Behind a lens they can disguise the fact that they have nothing to say to strangers.