“My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had...” — Helena Bonham Carter Quote

“My life had been very work-orientated, and all in close-up. Once I had the family, it went into sudden widescreen.”

“I think I've still got a bit of a sado-masochistic streak in me, because if I'm not going to be restricted by corsets and covered in lace, then I still wind up wearing an ape-mask over my face. I do wonder how I get myself in these situations!”

“I would pretend to be the French lieutenant's woman. I was always a romantic. I still am, actually.”

“When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.”

“I remember so vividly playing a scene with Jimmy Stewart. I was in the back of a covered wagon, and we were doing this little talk in the wilderness. They did his close-up first. I was looking at him and thinking, 'How does he do that?' He is not 'doing' anything, and yet everything is there.”

“Theater's wonderful because it's visceral, and it's happening in front of you, but you never get that close. So the close-up is a great privilege of film.”