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“Here you have Bill Murray. It’s on the set of a film called The Fantastic Mr. Fox, which was a stop motion animation directed by Wes Anderson. And I just went on set for a day to do some pictures and Bill Murray played one of the characters in it. He was on set, looking around and we were walking around the set. And I got him to lie down in this sort of Lilliput frame sort of got connotations of Gulliver’s travels. And he’s doing nothing, but he just looks like he’s asleep. He’s like he’s had the biggest night out and he’s full. And this giant has fall asleep in a little village. You know, there aren’t lot of photos of mine that I have framed at home. In fact, there’s very, very few. And this is one of them, cause it’s a picture I keep looking at it. It makes me chuckle every time I see it. Technically, it’s an incredibly simple photo to take. You just, you know, cut the camera as low down as you can to the ground. It’s interesting, someone was describing how when we first get our ideas of perspective when we’re little kids, and you think of watching a little boy with his toy car and he puts his eye down really low to the ground. And from the ground, his car looks big, like a big car. I sort of think of that when you look at this. Get the camera as close to the ground as you can look up and you start to sort of empower the subject. Make it feel larger than it is.“