Real people move, they bear with them the element of time. It is this fourth dimension of people that I try to capture in a photograph.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.
In those simpler days, you could just take pictures of movie stars and show them the way they were, as normal human beings. And if I felt part of any movement at the time, it was just to do that - to be journalistic and photograph what is, rather than what is made up.
It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
I believe people can move things with their minds.
I take real people and put them in extraordinary situations.
In 3-D filmmaking, I can take images and manipulate them infinitely, as opposed to taking still photographs and laying them one after the other. I move things in all directions. It's such a liberating experience.
Time plays an important role. My physical body is taking shape in space, and I see that my ideas about how we influence space with our movement is really 'matter of fact.'
In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.
I'm always watching people over a short time frame, putting them in an extreme position. Sometimes you don't see the humanity in a person because the time frame is so short and the circumstance so extreme.
I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.