I have been trying to retire to the back of the camera for quite a few years, and in 1970, when I first started directing, I said, 'If I could pull this off, I can some day move to the back of the camera and stay there.'
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think one day I want to be on the other side of the camera-maybe directing.
When you're working in front of the camera, there are always things that occur to you after the director has said 'Cut.' I could probably, if I sat down and thought about it, come up with instances where I wished I had made this particular choice or that particular choice.
It took me a long time to get comfortable with the idea of being photographed by a moving or still camera.
Everyone always told me I was fated to be in front of the camera.
I was always very silly and never took myself seriously. When my father had the camera out, I'd be up close and annoying. My father would keep saying, 'Move back! Move back!'
Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.
I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera.
After 2000 or so, I started to realize I wanted to be doing something else. I didn't want to be in front of a camera. I was frustrated. I didn't think I would stop acting, but I didn't want to be seen.
When I started in the mid-'90s, the goal was really to shoot for a film career and stay there.
I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.