If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day. 'Heres Matt at home learning his lines. Here's Matt researching in aisle six of his local library'. A few hours of that and they'd go home.
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If anybody wanted to photograph my life, they'd get bored in a day.
I guess I knew my dad was into photography, so a part of me was interested in picking it up to understand him a little better.
You might have, as a character, 30 pages of dialogue a day if you're what they call a 'front-burner story.' So you go home, you learn your lines for the next day, you get up, you're there at 7 in the morning, you do a quick rehearsal, you're on camera, you might leave, you know, at 7 at night and start the whole thing over again.
Of course, I won't be abandoning photography, because it is my life.
I'm the type of person who would rather stay home than get my picture taken.
I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'
When you live with a photographer, you never have a day off - it was a nightmare.
I know everything should be photographed. It helps me make sense of my existence.
I love this life. I feel like I am always catching my breath and saying, 'Oh! Will you look at that?' Photography has been my way of bearing witness to the joy I find in seeing the extraordinary in ordinary life. You don't look for pictures. Your pictures are looking for you.
Your photography is a record of your living, for anyone who really sees.