"When you grow up on camera and in the public eye, you feel you have to put forth this image. I just took that to the extreme and there was a lot of pressure on me"
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"Composition is what's similar between being photographer and director. As a photographer, you're sort of doing everything - you're directing the lights and you're framing and you're moving around. The hardest thing to learn as a director is how cameras have to move. You have to have patience, you have to learn how to look through the lens and then you have to learn to combine all of the compartments into one great image."
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"I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future."
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"No matter how much you rehearse on that stage, once you add 30,000 screaming people with flashing cameras into the equation, it's pretty intense."
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"One of my fantasies in my life has been that I was granted access with a camera to go back in time, and to film the actual campaign of Alexander crossing into India through Iran and Persia."
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"Through the lights cameras and action, glamour glitters and gold I unfold the scroll, plant seeds to stampede the globe."
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"Karl Malden was quite a mentor. He taught me things he had learned from being in front of a camera so long."
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"People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera."
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"When I was on set I tried not to bug Steven Soderbergh too much. "Why did you put the camera there?" But he was very open to my questions and definitely being on his set was really thrilling because he's such a master."
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"I had improvised a lot in classes and at the Actors Studio, but I never did it in front of the camera."
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"I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more."
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"It is said that the camera cannot lie, but rarely do we allow it to do anything else, since the camera sees what you point it at: the camera sees what you want it to see."
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"The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off."
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"I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination."
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"I'm able to move like no one else you've ever seen in front of a camera."
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"...most of the press were vultures descending on the scene for curious America aplomb. Cameras inside the coffin interviewing worms."
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"I think I was afraid of what I might say when I got onto someone's stage or in front of someone's camera."
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"The TV camera has no shutter. It does not deal with aspects or facets of objects in high resolution. It is a means of direct pick-up by the electrical groping over surfaces."
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"If there were camera phones back in the day, the biggest athletes in the world would have had a lot of explaining to do."
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"One good thing about TV is, if you die violently, God forbid, on camera, you will not have died in vain because you will be great entertainment."
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