Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.

When I am in front of the camera or on stage, I am not me.

I've always preferred being behind the camera.

We are splintering what was the 'camera' and its functionality - lens, sensors, and processing - into distinct parts, but, instead of lenses and shutters, software and algorithms are becoming the driving force.

I always enjoyed being in front of the camera.

A writer can write in an attic, or on top of a bus. Or with a sharp stick in some wet cement. To act, an actor has to have words. A stage. a camera turning.

The camera is no more an instrument of preservation, the image is.

If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.

In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.

I don't like being in front of the camera.

I believe in diversity in front of and behind the camera.

You don't rehearse jazz to death to get the camera angles.

I am better suited to be behind the camera. Frankly, I don't miss being an actor.

Neil Mahoney was definitely the visionary in taking 'Freak Dance' from stage to screen. He made it more cinematic. He brought the choreography, all the ways to shoot that. I was more the director of actors. I was in front of the camera directing, and he was behind the camera directing.

The State of the Union is less written than it is designed, structured and organized around applause prompts and camera cues.

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

Kids naturally tend to be a bit camera shy, especially in front of strangers.

A lot of athletes have star quality, but they just can't perform in front of a camera. So no matter how good-looking you are, no matter what kind of presence you have, you still have to be able to be a convincing performer to become a star.

Latinos are the fastest growing minority, and we're obviously not going anywhere. We're extremely loyal as a people, and I think Hollywood is starting to recognize that. It's very rare for a major studio to nationally distribute a film with Latino talent, not only in front of the camera, but also behind the camera.