There are times when you're working with film people when you have to say, 'If the camera were on you, what you're doing would be perfect'.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
If you're filming somebody doing something they really want to do, you're probably not very high on their list of problems to deal with. You see James Carville on the phone - he's like that whether you have a camera or not. He isn't doing it just for you, and that's hard to explain.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I would still encourage somebody, if they wanted to make a movie, to just go take a movie camera. That's clearly been shown to work.
Screen work always boils down to that moment between the camera and the actor or the actors. It always boils down to that, ultimately. You serve the camera.
As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
In films people basically work for the camera, you know, and that's why actors can hate each other and not be speaking to each other and still look as if they're in love because really they're loving the camera loving them.
Well, I think that a lot of times when you're working on a film, there aren't really opportunities to get to know all the people you have to work with.
I kind of always think my work is unfilmable, and when I meet people who are interested in filming it, I'm always stunned.
A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.
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