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I play myself all the time, on camera and off. What else can I do?

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.

To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's...

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Henri Cartier-BressonHenri Cartier-Bresson: The Mind's Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers

You only have to start saying of something : 'Ah, how beautiful ! We must photograph it !' and you a...

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Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel co...

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There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the go...

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Perhaps it sounds ridiculous, but the best thing that young filmmakers should do is to get hold of a...

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My filmmaking really began with technology. It began through technology, not through telling stories...

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I get that same queasy, nervous, thrilling feeling every time I go to work. That's never worn off si...

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I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equ...

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A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

A conscious act grew out of this by the time I began writing stories: getting my distance, a prerequ...

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The camera was a hand-held auxiliary of wanting-to-know. It had more than information and accuracy t...

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