I don't want to run around and look at a shot through a monitor. That doesn't improve what I'm trying to do. I figure, once I've done my job, it's none of my business.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I just shot my first dramatic movie in France, and for those dramatic scenes that I shot, I would not want to look at those. There's a certain mindset you have to put yourself into for those scenes, and looking at the monitor would just take you out of it.
Honestly, as you can imagine, it really isn't all that fun directing yourself, running back and forth to the monitors to see if you're terrible or not.
I'm someone who sits at a computer eight hours a day, and I look in that pinhole camera at the top of my screen and think, 'Someone could be watching me.'
I don't like working in front of a camera.
I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.
In front of the camera I look and I see visually what I've created.
Yes, if I had it my way I would do all the shots myself - I used to do that when I was just a cameraman, an operator - but there's no way; you can't do that anymore.
I don't like to watch my work after I do it because it just - I'll always look at the wrong things.
I know I have the ability to do so much more than just stand in front of the camera the rest of my life.
I am a camera with its shutter open, quite passive, recording, not thinking.