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In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

It's an incredible privilege for an actor to look into the camera. It's like looking right into the heart of the film, and you can't take that lightly.

As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'

As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.

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

Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.

If you're an actor, you're at the mercy of a script. You've got far more control if you're the photographer.

So many actors are not open in front of the camera - they have a persona.

As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.

That was the beginning of modern acting for me. You don't have to tell a camera everything. It gets bored if you do and wants to look elsewhere.