So they were turning, after all those cameras. Life, which can be strangely merciful, had taken pity on Norma Desmond. The dream she had clung to so desperately had enfolded her. Norma You see, this is my life. It always will be (In a whisper) There's nothing else just us and the cameras and those wonderful people out there in the dark. All right, Mr. De Mille, I'm ready for my close-up.
Quotes about close-up (15 Quotes)
I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.
I learned not to blink in a close-up or move your head at all, because if you did, they wouldn't use it.
A close-up on screen can say all a song can.
Tragedy is a close-up comedy, a long shot.
Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter.
The nude scenes were a little eerie and I felt a bit odd. Yeah, when the camera scanned up my body, I said to my friend, 'Now, that's a close-up.' I mean, you see every inch of my body. But I'm okay with it and so it was cool.
My close-up was magnificent!
Corporate America, with all its inherent strength and advantages, will have increasing opportunity to forge close-up business relations with India.
The greatest fallout of the space program, ... was not the close-up view of the moon, but a look at spaceship Earth from afar. For the first time in the history of humanity, we were able to see our planet for what it really is.
Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
The culture had just been through this postmodern period of green tea and Buddhism, with everybody asking the big questions. People were lost. These guys had answers. You see a close-up of a broken toenail inside a shoe, and that becomes an important clue. Instead of the big things, it's about the littlest things. And they become the most important things. It's a new way of perceiving, and I think that spiritual aspect of the show is why people keep watching.
The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up.
We're focusing very much on clip quality. We think about camera angles so that you get close-up shots on a 2-inch screen--wide-angle shots don't do as well. We are doing custom graphics--if you put TV graphics on a 2-inch screen, they're virtually unreadable.
People who don't like baseball say it's a slow game. It's only slow if the director sits on the center-field camera and waits for the next pitch to come. Our philosophy is to use close-up shots to enhance the action.