I was at a luncheon; and some cameras were trained on us. I don't know whether they were for television or not. You know how little I know about cameras.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always said that the best training to be a TV newsman or anybody on television is to do a children's show because you are oblivious to the fact that there is a camera there.
I never wanted to do TV. I just did what I was trained to do through the Special Forces, and I've been doing that from a very young age.
I think I've been asked a lot more than most TV producers to go on-camera. But I just do what I do and don't think about the package.
I'm never at my best on television. There's a row of cameras between you and the audience, and it's very weird, very confusing.
TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.
The stigma that used to exist many years ago, that actors from film don't do television, seems to have disappeared. That camera doesn't know it's a TV camera... or even a streaming camera. It's just a camera.
I worked in TV for a short time and couldn't stand the fact that we'd always be filming someone talking, just giving information.
Television is like speed chess, as you have no time and no money. It is like trying to play Grandmaster chess with a 20 minute timer. The rewards are great, though, as it moves faster and you get to see the finished results much quicker.
You know, it's nice on a sitcom to have an audience there, but there's still a wall of cameras between you and them.
Nothing could be recorded in those days except by aiming a movie camera at the television screen. It was at least another 10 years before they had any kind of recording medium.