Camera Quotes
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With Altman, he does discuss everything with you, but then leaves you to it and gives you full rein and lets you improvise and create a character while the camera is rolling.
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I was never interested in becoming an actor. I was directing videos. I was never into acting. I was into shooting music videos. I've only ever been behind the camera. Never in front of it.
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When I first got signed, I bought a vintage guitar from the 1930s for £1000. I've bought a £400 SLR camera, too, which was quite extravagant.
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I am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
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For me, the camera is like an entrance to the private lives of other people. And if you are curious like me, it is a fantastic tool.
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I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.
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The reality in which a camera turns up is always posed, e.g., the moon landing.
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I have always stood in awe of the camera. I recognize it for the instrument it is, part Stradivarius, part scalpel.
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He [Andy warhol] went out every evening to five or six parties with a tape recorder in one pocket and a camera with extra film and batteries in the other pocket, constantly recording and photographing everyone he came across.
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Fortunately, I've never been very conscious and inhibited of what I have to do. The camera's my soul mate.
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I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.
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In social situations, when I'm surrounded by people, I become very shy. But if there's a camera in front of me, I feel free.
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Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long.
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Off camera, I am not so quiet, I have a fun time, relaxed.
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In front of the camera and in front of the lens, there's no lawsuits, there's no agent, and there's most frequently no time limits... There's a longevity that's kind of built into it. I spend most of my time behind the scenes, and when it is time to perform, I'm genuinely delighted to do it.
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So here, for example, on a very bright sunny day, the camera was able to capture the detail on the blouse, despite how strong the sunlight was.
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I'm actually pretty shy in real life. But I guess in front of the camera, I focus.
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You can be, like, a totally different person on camera, and it's fun. You can take on another character, and it's awesome.
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I've fallen down crevasses, been bitten by snakes, been knocked unconscious, had various limbs broken and once, a heavy camera came plunging down which very nearly decapitated me.
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Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
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There is nothing worse than when actors come to a set - and it happens a lot with big stars - and they are too aware of where the camera is. They are the show. And that becomes apparent and it affects the production. I am like 'You should not know where the camera is - you should act, and I will do the rest.'
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I put down the camera long ago, you know? I was here in London, aged 19, and I was obsessed with my camera, shooting everything I could. Then someone stole it. It helped me to see things for the first time.
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I don't rehearse with my actors... the first rehearsal is the first time we turn the camera on... Sydney Pollack never rehearsed his actors, and I found out that's allowed... so you film reactions; you don't create them.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
