"When you first are in front of the camera as a young person, you'd be surprised at all the insecurities you can get."
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"Because the writer must be a participant in the scene, while he's writing it — or at least taping it, or even sketching it. Or all three. Probably the closest analogy to the ideal would be a film director/producer who writes his own scripts, does his own camera work and somehow manages to film himself in action, as the protagonist or at least a main character."
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"Microsoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it's taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, 'Let's get out the camera and get that shot.' You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want."
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"Most modern reproducers of life, even including the camera, really repudiate it. We gulp down evil, choke at good."
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"I've always been the goofy kid. Growing up, I always enjoyed the comedic aspect of relating to women. Even on camera, it was always the funny take on it."
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"The camera adds ten pounds and ten thousand dollars."
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"Everybody gets inspired by different things. I grew up wanting to go up the street with a video camera because I liked watching David Letterman yell out of the ninth floor of Rockefeller Center with a megaphone at people on the street. I thought that was a riot."
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"I began making pictures because I wanted to record what supports hope: the untranslatable mystery and beauty of the world. Along the way, however, the camera also caught evidence against hope, and I eventually concluded that this, too, belonged in pictures if they were to be truthful and thus useful."
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"I started out making skateboard videos. Soon, it dawned on me I just wasnt that great at skateboarding. So I put down the skateboard and just kept going with the camera."
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"I always just wait for the right material to come to me. Many times people ask, "What have you been up To?" Well, I'm here and working. Just not in front of the camera as much as I'd like to be."
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"With a camera like that you don't believe you're in the masterpiece business. It's enough to be able to peck at the world."
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"I don't own a camera, so I travel with a police sketch artist."
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"The camera points both ways. In expressing the subject you also express yourself."
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"The Internet, the camera cellphone and the like have not only sped up the world's information uptake, but they have cheapened that which they capture."
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"The camera is simply not the supple and powerful instrument of description that the pen is."
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"I always felt that if you're not trying something different each time out of the gate, you're being safe, and you don't ever want to find that place of safety. I like that, each time, before I even go in front of the cameras, the studio's reaction will be fear."
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"I found that each time I opened my camera and filmed Jerusalem, its image was overtaking what I wanted to express."
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"I'm a natural behind the camera... My attentions are more toward behind the scenes, more toward creating, producing, and directing what's going on here... When I finally do pop in front of the lens, I'm genuinely glad and relieved to be there."
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"The camera cannot, but the photographer can."
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"You should never use the camera to make your pictures. You use yourself, your experience to make the picture with the camera. Not the other way around."
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