A lot of filmmaking is an endurance contest between you and the people you're filming. Every time that you relax, I promise you, something interesting will happen.
The photographer, like an acrobat, must defy the laws of probability or even of possibility; at the limit, he must defy those of the interesting: the photograph becomes surprising when we do not know why it has been taken.
Life is unpredictable, and I feel, to some extent, lighting and cinematography should be a reflection of that.
The difficulty is capturing surprise on film.
It's hard to know what's going to happen when you're filming a reality show, but if you just let life unfold, that's when the best stories evolve.
I don't want to sound mystical but sometimes when you take a picture - when the sets are in place - then something takes over and leads you. It's this sense of extraordinary luck and chance. The shoot is blessed and charmed, and you make pictures that you couldn't in your wildest dreams have imagined. That is the magic of photography.
I think anybody can take a good picture. My idea of a good picture is one that's in focus and of a famous person doing something unfamous. It's being in the right place at the wrong time.
Virtually always I get my best pictures when everybody thinks the shoot's done.
