I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.
I love my cameras. I love contact sheets. I love the visceral thing of film and I'm not positive that I can replicate my lighting digitally. My assistants tell me I can, but, just stubborn I guess.
The same camera that photographs a murder scene can photograph a beautiful society affair at a big hotel.
So while you're trying to improvise, you're also trying to puppeteer, you're doing everything that you need to do to perform a puppet in our style, for a camera.
As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.
The camera is an extension of yourself. . . Your story treatment may be subjective, but it is important to remain objective as to truth.
You know what's more difficult to do organically? Laughing. It's actually one of the hardest things to do on camera.
I expect that people are going to feel differently about that once they're aware that AI systems can watch through a camera and can, in some sense, understand what it's seeing.
My mentality is: I'm going to do it. I'm going to eat a lot of food, and then I'm going to complain about it when I see myself on camera.
Acting, to me, is being given the freedom and ability to play, and that's - that's what I love most about it. I feel very comfortable in playing, whether it be in front of a camera or on stage.
I would love to work with Adam Sandler. Because then all I'd have to do is just turn the camera on and off.
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.
I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.
I don't like horror, which is ridiculous because I've been in three horror movies, but when I see those things, I see camera tricks and fake blood and actors screaming and I don't know understand why other actors don't see that.
The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?
Twitter makes you a comedian in the same way that digital cameras make you a photographer
I'm not a journalist any more. I don't have to stick a microphone up somebody's nostril and I don't have a camera lens behind my shoulder, I think people talk to me in a much franker way.
I moved to L. A. to write and direct. I had no intentions of being in front of the camera.
He wants as many victors as possible for the cameras to follow in the Capitol. Thinks it makes for better television. " "Are you and Beetee going?" I ask. "As many young and attractive victors as possible," Haymitch corrects himself. "So, no. We'll be here.
The camera cannot lie, but it can be an accessory to untruth.