I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.
I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.
The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.
I like to know where the camera is.
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
You can't name the inventor of the camera. The 19th-century invention was chemical: the fixative.
The camera lens or the television camera is still just a proscenium arch. And as a great old character actor once said to me, wherever you're acting, you reach up and take hold of the proscenium arch, and you pull it down around your shoulders.
I'm much happier behind the camera.
It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.
The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.