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I wasn't interested in having to live with a camera - I have a hard enough time getting along with myself. I don't need cameras around and all that action.

When you are younger, the camera is like a friend and you can go places and feel like you're with someone, like you have a companion.

There are some people who become best friends with everyone they photograph. There are people that I really like and admire and respect, but in a way I think it's better to keep a distance. I think you get better pictures of people that you don't know very well.

I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

I have a theory that the only way you can be any good is if the camera likes you. If the camera doesn't like you, you are gone.

When you're supposed to be close and friends in the film, the moment you're talking as friends off the set, it makes it that much better when you're filming.

I don't know if the camera likes me, but I do like the camera.

A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.

I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is.