When I was little, I would always try and look into the television screen along the sides. I kept thinking if you looked in there, you could see what was happening off camera.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
While all the other kids were out playing ball and stuff, I used to stay in my room and imagine that there was a camera in the wall. And I used to really believe that I was putting on a television show and that it was going out to somewhere in the world.
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.
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.
Lesson number one: Pay attention to the intrusion of the camera.
What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television.
When you go into a bar, there are hundreds and hundreds of cameras in that bar - many of them installed by that bar. They might be checking something or taking a picture of you.
I always direct next to the camera and watch my actors, and so you can see the small things that you can't see on the small screen but you can definitely see on the big screen.
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.'
The very first video experience I had was in high school. They brought a black-and-white closed-circuit surveillance camera into the classroom. I will never forget, as a kid, looking at that image.
TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.
No opposing quotes found.