I remember being fascinated by the graduated sizes and perspective on the sets [of Star Wars]. And how they put shorter people and kids in the uniforms and placed them in the distance to give the idea that these sets had more depth than they really did.
I once got a little camera to use for details of architecture and so forth but the photo was always so different from the perspective the eye gives, I gave it up.
My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.
To look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion.
Reading someone else's newspaper is like sleeping with someone else's wife. Nothing seems to be precisely in the right place, and when you find what you are looking for, it is not clear then how to respond to it.
There are very complex shapes which would be the same from close by and far away.
In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.
People always remark on how I'm not as tall as I look in film. I tell them about the time I saw Lassie on a studio lot, and she was this tiny scruffy dog. Film makes you larger than life.
The conformation of his mind was such that whatever was little seemed to him great, and whatever was great seemed to him little.
It happens to be one of those days when I see everybody in the family, including myself, through the wrong end of a telescope.
Insignificant events can take on monumental proportions when your head is full of practically nothing.
