I try not to be spectacular with the camera. I try to be a witness of what's going on.
Over the past 10 years of being famous, my relationship with the camera has not been a pleasant one.
The camera is a kind of license.
Working in front of the camera keeps me alive
I am not as intelligent as Aamir Khan. I am barely managing to be in front of the camera. There are many people who know marketing well and surely Aamir knows much more than I do.
I have literally no idea what it's like to shoot a 2D movie. I'd only shot things that were 7 minutes long with a video camera in my apartment with friends.
. . . my camera is my friend, and I take it everywhere.
If you buy your husband or boyfriend a video camera, for the first few weeks he has it, lock the door when you go to the bathroom. Most of my husband's early films end with a scream and a flush.
When I watch a film I get swept away. I don't really watch the camera.
It really is a pleasure to work with someone who you admire. Whatever you do in front of the camera, and I don't know what it is, but actors have this thing that you recognize someone that makes you better. When you do that, it's a great feeling.
The truth is, an actor's performance is the result of work by a lot more people than just the actor. When you see that character portrayed up on screen, there is the work certainly of the actor, but there's the work of the editor, there's the work of what the camera was doing. What the music was doing, all of the above.
Here’s the thing, making out with a girl on camera … They’re beautiful and soft. I get why you guys are into it.
I was open to anything. That doesn't mean I would do anything, it just means I was open to anything. I've met for dramas, single camera comedy, multi-camera comedy. I take each script as an individual project.
Most times you do a movie every place except for what the camera sees is just a mess with the lights, people, and cameras so you get used to it. There is no way to shut that out, there is always a constant reminder of how many people it takes, what is going on and how many elements that goes into making this scene look right.
There's just such a premium on hurrying, and the camera is the be all and end all, and the actors had better hurry up and get it right and get it done.
The camera can photograph thought.
Walking on camera is damn hard. It's a Jewish problem. The rangy stride across the blasted moor is not really a Jewish thing.
Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera.
Theatre is liberating because it only works if it's truthful - that's what it requires. That's not true of film: the camera does lie.
If I didn't have a camera, the things I do would be crazy.