If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The camera is my tool. Through it I give a reason to everything around me.
I miss the camera each moment and each day.
Everyone always told me I was fated to be in front of the camera.
Life came in and put me in front of the camera before I could really make a decision, but I think I probably would have gravitated to film.
I no longer want reminders of what was, what got broken, what got lost, what got wasted.
Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.
I certainly never expected to be in front of a camera one day of my life.
No one forgets the presence of the camera, no matter how long it's there.
The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.