The camera is not your eye, and it's not the eye of the audience. I don't think it's my eye, either. It belongs to the film.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
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.
To not be self-conscious of your appearance is huge, and something that I desperately hope to carry into film at some point in my useless life - to not be thinking, 'My ear looks weird from this angle, why is the camera over there?'
My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.
Look and think before opening the shutter. The heart and mind are the true lens of the camera.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
I believe your thoughts are your thoughts, but are you a human being in front of the camera, or an actor? They are two different things.
If you're shooting a really serious, dramatic scene, personally I wouldn't want to look at the camera.
The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.
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.
You think the only thing looking at you is this steel thing, but behind the camera is this living, breathing person operating the camera whose job it is to watch you.