The camera loves Jena Malone in this month's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 and Inherent Vice. In real life, she loves it right back.
By Marnie Hanel
"The photographer Mary Ellen Mark shot me on-set when I was 12. I was like, Who is this woman? I was so entranced."
"I got my first camera when I was 15, and at 18, I decided I wanted to study further. I went to community college, and I was in the darkroom 20 hours a day. They had to kick me out at the end of the night."
LENS LOVE
"I use a Nikon F100 or my point-and-shoot Minolta. It can fall down two flights of stairs and it will keep ticking."
"I love being in photo shoots because I can't help but be a photographer. I'll look at the clothes and be like, OK, this angle would look best with this."
"My dream is to work with National Geographic. I'd love to go all over the world. Right now, I'm shooting in New Mexico. There's a Taco Bell and eight gas stations. Wandering around trying to capture the beauty of this place is just as thrilling as wandering around Rome."
MOVING PICTURES?
"I directed a music video a year ago for a band called Lavender Diamond. Stepping away from that, I realized I had just figured out what I wanted to be when I grew up."
SUN WORSHIPPER
"I can be heartbroken in my bed, and then the light shifts and I'll be like, I have to get outside. I have to see where this light will lead me because I don't want to miss it."
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