Camera Experience Quotes

I require a lot of stimulation, and there's so much I've learned being in front of the camera, I felt like I had more to give behind it.

I've been in front of the camera a million times as a musician, and even directed a few music videos. So, I know a lot about spacing, focus, blocking, etcetera. So, acting isn't totally new for me. Still, I find it fascinating, because you actually get to be another person.

I am very rewarded and challenged in front of the camera.

I've been singing since I was a little kid, but 'Sierra' was my first time singing on camera, which was definitely intimidating at first.

Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.

Being in front of the camera, you never got to see the whole process from the conception of the script all the way through to the filming process.

Looking back, the most challenging thing for me was actually directing. It's very tough. Being in front of the camera is easy since the director can tell me what to do. But being the director and giving people directions is the toughest thing for me.

The experience of using a Rolleiflex camera is very different than using a SLR.

I'm not someone who had to worry about aging on camera. I was already aged when I got there.

I've been in front of a camera since I was a little girl, and that's the medium I understand.

Nothing can really prepare you for live TV because you never know what's going to happen. I think, for me, what really helps is I know what I'm looking for when I'm shooting things, so it definitely helps to have that eye and know what camera you're looking at.

I always thought I was going to be on the other side of the camera. That's where I found myself. I found out that I could write when I was 17, right before you go to college, so it was a passion of mine.

I'm still very grateful to digital cameras in general, but I didn't have this feeling with the RED one.

I like the experience of being in a shoot, and I'm a total exhibitionist, but I don't like to look at them.

Improv is not something I had a lot of experience with, because for a long time, my only experience in front of a camera was all television, which is pretty rigid script-wise, except for the occasional scene where you toss in an ad-lib just to elongate something.

That first year at Universal was a big blur and, naturally, I thought they were wasting me. I didn't realize at the time that I was learning my craft and acting more easily in front of the camera.

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 do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and angles, how to move, and what looks good and what doesn't.

I started modelling while still studying. I liked doing television commercials and being in front of the camera. Lots of ad directors told me to try for films.

I did radio, I did television, I did opera, I did films in which I had very, very little to say. But I had a lot of experience in front of the camera, and that's what really counts.

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.

People who have expertise or the luck to have rehearsal time with cameras have it over people who don't.

I did nothing but theater until, I guess, '99. I was all the way through college the first time that I had stepped in front of a camera. And it's weird; it's definitely a transition.

I started acting when I was 17. I started modeling when I was 13. It helps in the way that you don't get fazed by cameras too much.