Now when I see something beautiful or funny or sweet, sometimes I reach for my camera, but other times I think, 'I need to let this moment exist. I don't have to capture everything. I just want to experience it.'
When I got cast in 'Rocky IV,' I had never seen a film camera before. And here I was in this boxing movie.
I was always interested - I mean, it's kind of part of your job - I was always interested in the camera.
I have definitely been curious and involved in the process; even as a young actor. I was always looking at where the camera was, what story it was telling. And as my experience grew, I wanted to know even more.
Every time I step in front of a camera I feel young again. I really do. It keeps your mind active and it keeps you going.
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
I'm really into my photography and am trying to catch up with digital generation - I was used to the old 35mm cameras.
As long as I don't break the camera, I'll be fine.
I've done panel shows, which I enjoy, and on those you're recording half-an-hour of TV and sometimes they film for two hours. But with 'Britain's Got Talent,' you're on camera for eight hours, with a large theatre audience watching - and in between you're being filmed for ITV2 as you eat your lunch.
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.
You're in front of an audience, but you're playing for a camera. There's this huge adrenaline rush, because you know that besides the audience in the studio, there are millions of people watching at home.
When I'm on camera, I have to do things pretty much the way I do things in everyday life. It gives the audience someone real to identify with.
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.
I grew up in New York, so I fell in love with acting on a stage, not in front of a camera.
So when I got the chance to do my first talk show, 50 years ago last month, I never had any writers. There was no budget - it was just me and the camera and my friend who was the director. I talked about what I'd done that week.
Some people say the camera loves me, the truth is, I love the camera.
We live in the worst country in the world. At least we do for lazy, inefficient, office-bound police, whose response to an extraordinary rise in violent crime is to order more speed cameras.
And if I had a camera Showing all the light we give And showing where the light extends I'd give it to my friends
We just said, 'Okay, you're in the movie. Bring what you would bring for a three-day weekend and I hope you like the way you look in it because once you're on camera, that's your wardrobe.' But it worked; it worked and we were very surprised.
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 am the same on camera as I am off. I can't imagine being any other way.
We were using a hand-held camera to film the scene when Morse collapses. The camera wouldn't start. Three times they said action and it still wouldn't work. To this day, they still don't know what was wrong.
I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.
Before you shoot an irresistible subject, mute all your senses except sight to find out how much is left for the camera to record.
Realism and superrealism are what I'm after. This world is full of things the eye doesn't see. The camera can see more, and often 10 times better.
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