Camera Quotes
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When I started, we had just the camera and the person, mostly. And if you wanted to do a dolly shot, particularly working in Chicago where I began, you'd get in the back trunk of a car, and you'd have a friend drive the car, or you'd get in some kid's little wagon that he plays with and have someone pull that for dolly shots.
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You would never dream of going on to play a scene in front of an audience at least without having rehearsed it. But you do somehow in front of a camera.
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I have a really dry sense of humor. I don't think it's funny when people wink at the camera. That's more of an actor thing, just committing to whatever the thing is.
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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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The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.
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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 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 am a camera' but it is a discontinued model.
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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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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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I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?
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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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The camera cannot, but the photographer can.
