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Working in front of the camera keeps me alive. I couldn't care less about actors' trailers and food on sets and stuff like that - I just want to act.

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

Even someone as photographed and aware of the camera as members of the royal family needs to feel completely comfortable if they are to look their best.

As mayor, I got used to the fact that when you walked out of the house in the morning to pick up the newspaper in your boxers, there could be a camera there.

Back in the day, I actually studied photography in Florence for a few months, and my photography teacher took away my digital camera and said, 'No, use this - it's analog and it's square.' It was a Holga camera, a very cheap $3 or $4 plastic camera. And that's what inspired 'Instagram'.

By nature, I am a low-key person and like being behind the camera.

The best traveler is one without a camera.

There's always going to be that pressure when you're in front of the camera. When you're famous it's just an extreme version of reality and there's a pressure to look a certain way.

I don't like to work with assistants. I'm already one too many the camera alone would be enough.

When you are a photographer, you work all the time, because your eye is the first camera.

I grew up as a photo nut. Every Christmas I would get a new camera. It's a huge part of my life.

Redford always has been a cool presence both before and behind the camera. His best movie as a filmmaker, 1994's 'Quiz Show,' exhibits a classicism verging on self-repression, and the social indignation in many of his films engages more than moves you.

There's a gap between what I want to do, what I do on camera, and what gets edited. Right? So the goal is to try and close the gaps. What's the biggest compliment is if I read a review and it's exactly what I wrote down in my diary before ever filming it. That's really cool. That's the biggest signifier of closing the gaps.

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

The function of camera movement is to assist the storytelling. That's all it is. It cannot be there just to demonstrate itself.

When I go to the bathrooms, I cannot take off my pants as before; because there is a light continuously blinking like a camera, everyone says it is just an environmental friendly lighting. Well, I cannot really trust it and I am not taking the risk of circulating my naked photos around.

No matter how sophisticated the camera, the photographer is still the one that makes it.

Your most important gear is your eye, heart and soul.