Camera Quotes
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The camera is, in a sense, both a way to get close, and to break free. It is a testimony to independence as well as a new way to relate to the world.
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I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me.
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The 35mm camera is for life and for people, the swift and intense moments of life.
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I really learned how to act on camera through 'Power Rangers' because I hadn't done a lot of film and TV.
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I really trust the authenticity of real people and my job is to get them to be themselves in front of the camera. Often what happens is, you'll get a newcomer in front of the camera and they'll freeze up or they imitate actors or other performances that they've admired and so they stop becoming themselves. And so my job as the director is just to always return them to what I first saw in them, which was simply an uncensored human being.
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Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.
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When you're in front of the camera, for a small budget or a big budget movie, there's no difference.
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My parents offered me my first camera for my birthday and I developed an exclusive passion for it over the years. Since I was not the most social kid on the block, the camera helped me to express myself, invent my own language - something like a secret garden. I decided early on I would not write in a diary but take silent photographs instead.
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I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?
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Photography is a source of raw materials as I believe the camera is never perfect and will never be able to express in full what I see and feel.
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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
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Physically, looking through a giant ground glass and seeing how the world looks is amazing. When composing a shot, I see a combination of the real facts of my subject and the camera's transformation of their image at the same time.
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There is a very particular feeling I get when I have the camera in my hand, looking at an actor talk, knowing that what I’m shooting will end up on the screen.
