Camera Quotes

While the cameras are rolling, I rarely look directly at the actors, but focus my gaze somewhere else.

The experience of the individual has become the experience of the people, thanks solely to the camera.

I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.

A camera alone does not make a picture. To make a picture you need a camera, a photographer and above all a subject. It is the subject that determines the interest of the photograph.

All those images are being produced basically the same way, through a lens and a camera.

I’m never certain of a performance – my own or the other actors’ – or the script or anything. But to me it seems there’s only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.

I will never lose anything that an audience will miss

. You have to make sure you don’t hurt or hit someone. And hit the beats, because they have five cameras

Once you develop a comfort level with someone, that translates on camera.

My philosophy is that I’m an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.