When we made 'Primary,' it was just one camera. We were trying to make ourselves inconspicuous.
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I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.
To me, a multi-cam is just like the feeling you get from the audience.
As actors, we went where we wanted to, and the camera followed us: it was like having another person in the room. There was no formal structure to the process. It was very liberating.
Funny is funny, whether you have three cameras or one.
How can we have our privacy? How can we have our independence now in these times with these cameras? Because I think privacy and our solitude is really important.
A lot of cable television is shot on a single camera. Our eyes are more trained to that. It takes the camera off the crane, away from observing the action, to becoming a character in the story along with everyone else. People are getting used to that.
I actually wanted to first direct and produce, but then I got this very cool opportunity to be in front of the camera once.
Before the camera, you only had secondhand takes - someone had to tell you what they saw or draw a picture of it or sing a song. Because of the camera, sometimes to our horror, we now know everything that happens in the world - things that before we were sheltered from.
I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.
If you've got five cameras, you're making sure that you're in the right position for each one of the cameras.