I'm always aware of the camera and it feels like that's the audience.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.
I think audiences are quite comfortable watching something coming into being.
When I'm making a film, I'm the audience.
To me the recognition of the audience is part of the filmmaking process. When you make a movie, it's for them.
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
I think of the audience the way I would think of another person: You meet someone, then you take it from there; you see what's interesting to both of you.
I know my audience, and they're not people that the studios know anything about.
Put me on telly, and I think I have a relaxation on camera that makes an audience relax, too. It's not a conscious thing. Cameras don't bother me, whereas other people try to perform to them.
If I do my very best, then the camera and the audience will follow me, and eventually they will somehow feel like I feel. I don't have to show it to them. I don't have to speak it out loud.
You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.