"People everywhere have been very, very good to me, whether I'm with or without cameras."
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"I’m always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got."
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"I'm telling you, if you want to have good advice, never pay any attention to the camera guys because they will tell you over and over something is wrong and let's reshoot it, let's do this and let's do that. Hey, just do it."
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"The terrain of the face is the most dynamic thing you can point the camera at, to me. I love production design and bells and whistles and all of that. I love a technograin as much as the next gal, but a great actor's face? What else should we be looking at?"
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"I wish I could be the black woman Soderbergh, and put the camera on my shoulder and shoot beautifully while I directed."
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"Citizen journalism is rapidly emerging as an invaluable part of delivering the news. With the expansion of the Web and the ever-decreasing size and cost of camera phones and video cameras, the ability to commit acts of journalism is spreading to everyone."
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"I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it."
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"I prefer directing to acting. There is huge freedom that comes from being behind the camera. It brings a lot of responsibilities as well, but is intensely rewarding. Particularly the chance to help draw out the best in young actors."
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"The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character."
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"You've got to love acting and that's true for me. I love the idea of getting on stage and getting in front of a camera."
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"I get my flow from Daddy, my singing ability from Mommy, the camera stuff from both. That's just what happens when you hang out with the Smiths."
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"More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle."
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"The camera does not know what it takes; it captures materials with which you reconstruct, not so much what you saw as what you thought you saw. Hence the best photography is aware, mindful, of illusion and uses illusion, permitting and encouraging it - especially unconscious and powerful illusions that are not usually admitted on the scene."
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"Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures."
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"When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera."
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"I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time."
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"With a camera, one has to love individual cases."
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"I don't like acting; not in front of the camera."
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"There is no right or wrong angle for something. The idea of putting the camera in an unfamiliar position is simply to do with film language. Sometimes it is spectacular, sometimes it is ugly, sometimes it is uninteresting."
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"The camera can be lenient; it is can also expert at being cruel. But its cruelty only produces another kind of beauty, according to the surrealist preferences which rule photographic taste."
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