After defining an idea of what I want to achieve, through a series of storyboard images, I'll go to the ends of the earth to create it, whether that involves obscure camera lenses or the latest electronic techniques.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We have been endowed with the capacity and the power to create desirable pictures within and to find them automatically in the outer world of our environment.
We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.
I throw everything I have into whatever story I'm writing - and so there's something immensely gratifying about finishing one piece and then starting fresh with a new setting, time period and cast of characters, getting to see the world through a completely different lens each time.
I'm constantly working on these edges of photography, either to employ so much information or reduce information to the point of collapse.
Part of the role of photography is to exaggerate, and that is an aspect that I have to puncture. I do that by showing the world as I really find it.
Visual ideas combined with technology combined with personal interpretation equals photography. Each must hold it's own; if it doesn't, the thing collapses.
I like the idea of infinite human potential, and a lot of my photography and filmmaking has been focused on that.
As a storyboard artist, you have to be able to draw anything.
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.