You can always tell in a movie when they are setting you up for something. If someone leaves an important object on the table and walks away, the camera will have some way of indicating that to you.
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A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
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'.
With some actors, you can tell when they're acting all by themselves, no matter who else is in the screen.
As an actor, the first thing you're taught is, 'Don't look into the camera; ignore it.'
You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.
You're watching the movie for the first time when you're working with the actors in front of the camera. You don't think about how the audience will react. You discover the film.
As an actor, if you're just sitting and staring and you don't know who you are in your own mind, it's vacant. And sometimes the camera is an X-ray machine, it can pick it up.
In theater, you get to rehearse several weeks, you memorize everything, and by the time you open, you know what the play is. In film, it's almost the opposite. You do your work on your own and maybe have a couple of minutes to rehearse. When the camera rolls, you generally don't know what's going to happen.
People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.
Bizarrely, on movie sets, they don't really dig it when you look in the camera, which is a bizarre fact.
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