No matter how many helicopters there are, when it comes down to it there is the camera and you.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.
On some sets, if a helicopter goes by, what would normally happen is that somebody would go, 'There's a helicopter. Stop.' I'd never stop for a helicopter. I am always trying to make sure that the machine is in service to the actors.
Flying helicopters is what I do for fun.
Who cares about seeing 10,000 helicopter assaults? That's spectacle.
In this film, we took a helicopter up and showed London as a vista, which is not very often done.
I don't own a helicopter because I want someone to bring me places quickly. I own it because it's an incredible machine that I like to fly and learn about. I like the complexity of it.
If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.
The helicopter is a fine way to travel, but it induces a view of the world that only God and CEOs share on a regular basis.
Professional camera crews are rarely there when a bomb goes off or a rocket lands. They usually show up afterwards.
And I fly planes all the time. And helicopters.