I had done a lot of rock `n` roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock `n` roll bands.
George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.
Film, as far as I`m concerned, is my area of artistic endeavor, so I never think of a movie that gets released as being all done-it`s just when they took it away from you.
Digital imaging has untied our hands with regards to technical limitations. We no longer have to be arbiters of technology; we get to participate in the interpretation of technology into creative content.
Because I come from that old-school optics environment, I know stuff about depth of field and camera movement and things that are not necessarily a part of the curriculum for people who started on a box and have never done anything that wasn`t on a box.
I had done a lot of rock `n` roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock `n` roll bands.
