I did take my camera along, as I felt there wouldn't be enough time to draw the things I wanted to do. I did some drawing and did a lot of photography but I was not part of Stryker's outfit at all.
I feel as though the camera is almost a kind of voyeur in Mr. Bean's life, and you just watch this bizarre man going about his life in the way that he wants to.
My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
Nothing is worth putting my health on the line. Not a camera, not a title, nothing.
What woman wants a camera following around her naked butt?
I never studied directing and I never really thought about doing it, and then I just found myself in that situation and tried it. I like to be observing everything else, and I get self-conscious in front of the camera.
I'm glad I took the leap away from acting into going behind the camera because it's much more satisfying - I love acting and I still do, but it's much more satisfying to be able to make the stuff.
A journalist who doesn't bring a camera is like a warrior who doesn't carry a sword.
Superstars come and go. I want to make sure I am always a producer's actor. I may be refused to be called a great actor but I have never troubled any of my producers in my life. Honesty always catches the camera, and that is what my strength is.
I'm not a photojournalist.
I can zero in on subtle things because I'm holding the camera.
My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.
I've done all sorts of different kinds of action. We did a thing in 'Blood Diamond,' the attack on Freetown, where I carefully staged the action but did not show the camera operators what we were going to film - so it has the feel of documentary, trying to capture something, and that gave it a whole different feel.
They say the camera never lies. It lies every day.
This is going to sound cheesy, but with acting there are so many tools. When you're on camera, you're using all of it. You're using the voice, you're using your body, you're using wardrobe, all of it, but it's funny, once you take all of those things away, you realize how much you rely on the physicality.
As the camera, I try to subordinate every word to be truthful and honest to each character's context.
When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.
It ain't the picture and it ain't the camera - it's the operator.
I think I'm better behind the camera than I am in front.
It's been an extraordinary journey. I have learned so much along the way. I entered the modeling industry as a business person already. I always knew I belonged on the other side of the camera.
I mean yes to act out something or take chances in the performance is one thing. But in terms of a camera, whatever's captured is captured so that's a little more daunting.
Where I think the most work needs to be done is behind the camera, not in front of it.
I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.' The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you're young.
When I made 'Eight Below,' they wanted me to shoot digital, and I didn't want to do it because that's just what I need, to get a great series of takes and then find out the camera was frozen.
I do like being in front of the camera more and more. Having experience behind it has taught me about lighting and angles, how to move, and what looks good and what doesn't.
Being an anchor is not just a matter of sitting in front of a camera and looking pretty.
I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.
I'm quite shy. Television presents an amplified version of yourself. When I'm on camera I'm pumping more adrenaline, I'm being a bit more engaging than I am in everyday conversation, but that's normal, isn't it? Otherwise nobody would want to watch.
I prefer working behind the camera.
We need to have more conversations about representation as well as the imbalance in terms of needing more women behind the camera and in front of the camera, and the diversity factor.
From the beginning, the camera and I were great friends. It loves me, and I love it.
All I need is a camera and I'll make things happen.
A movie camera is like having someone you have a crush on watching you from afar - you pretend it's not there.
Once you get into your stride, the camera becomes like another person in the room. It's like being in a very small theatre where there is no getting away with anything because the audience is centimetres away from you.
Nobody who cooks does it with full hair and makeup in front of a TV camera.
If I am at a party, I want to be at the party. Too many photographers use the camera to avoid participating in things. They become professional observers.
