"I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera."
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"And treating poetry as a performing art emphasizes its ephemerality. A printed poem can be endlessly reprinted, photocopied, scanned, uploaded, cut and pasted - but a performance, even if somebody's there with a video camera, is one time only: the audience experiences something that won't exist when the performance is over, and which won't ever be reproduced in exactly the same form. I find that appealing."
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"The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical."
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"I think I've spent more time in front of a camera than off camera. That's just the way it is."
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"When I work, I really try to get absorbed in the character. Unless I want to do something playful with the camera, I'm not too worried about where the camera is or positions."
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"I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera."
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"If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from the physical life-process."
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"I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars."
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"I wonder how Colin Powell sleeps at night. I would like to have a word with him because he lied. He lied. He lied to me. He lied to my face through the camera at the U.N."
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"Hey, I fool the camera. I'm a liar, a magician."
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"You can't ever let yourself be thrown by a camera. That's never good for an actor. When you're reading the script, you want to work with someone you trust so there's nothing to worry about."
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"Basically, if you have above-average intelligence, you have common sense and you can speak in front of a camera and to a crowd, you can govern the state."
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"I paint what I see, not what a camera would see."
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"I don't mind looking to the camera - it's people that throw me."
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"It was amazing to watch him in the darkroom at an advanced age, still get excited when the results were pleasing. He still struggled like we all do in the darkroom and he struggled behind the camera, and when he had a success he was beaming."
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"And then as I frequently do, some times I'll peek out from underneath the focusing cloth and just look around the edges of the frame that I'm not seeing, see if there's something that should be adjusted in terms of changing the camera position."
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"So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera."
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"Pictures... are also opinions... [they] set down what the camera operator sees and he sees what he wants to see and what he loves and hates and pities and is proud of."
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"Not being well-versed in that arena myself, it's a little bit frightening because I'm not very good in those situations with lots of people and lots of famous people and cameras and all of that. It's not my specialty."
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"One of the best things - and something I'm grateful for every time I walk onto a film set - is my six and a half years on Dawson's Creek and the experience it afforded me in how to get comfortable with the camera."
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