It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Don't get between me and a really good picture in the darkroom, because then I want to go straight to the darkroom and develop it. But once that's done, I'm fine.
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.
Lighting is an essential way to change the mood of a room, especially if you can use dimmers.
By appreciating the darkness when you design the light, you create much more interesting environments that truly enhance our lives.
I don't really think too much about special effects because that's not really something I can clearly visualize, so I leave that to the pros.
My job on 'Dark Shadows' was to make it fun and funny, first and foremost. It can still be dark and it can still even be gory and gothic at times, but it also needed to be fun and it needed to be an experience that people would enjoy having.
I have a dark room, and I still process film, but digital photography can be a totally lying kind of experience; you can move anything you want... the whole thing can't be trusted, really.
I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way.
Gosh, it's so fun to do a movie where there's nothing dark happening in it.
The darkroom is just the means to an end.