X

Sort by

Quote length

Sentiment

Change font

Change background

Film Cinematographer Inspirational Quotes (86)

Page 1 of 4
Filter & Style
Image
I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too narrow for the dollies that they had at that time. So it was quite useful.
Haskell Wexler
Image
To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.
Conrad Hall
Image
Do a good job on a good film and you're on the map. Do a great job on a bad movie and not very many people will think of you.
Maryse Alberti
Image
It's always an enormous pressure when you do a sequel. The demands are so high, and it's expensive.
Jan de Bont
Image
If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.
Roger Deakins
Image
It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.
Conrad Hall
Image
From my image of digging around in the mud like a grunt, I preferred fighting the war from ships.
Haskell Wexler
Image
What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story.
Wally Pfister
Image
I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.
Roger Deakins
Image
But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.
Conrad Hall
Image
Lighting was very primitive. And still it was really the way to learn because sometimes some of the modern technology is so extreme and so compartmentalized that we lose sight of exactly what we're doing.
Haskell Wexler
Image
Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films that used to be made that aren’t being made now.
Roger Deakins
Image
As a director, you try to find what is creative.
Jan de Bont
Image
I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.
Conrad Hall
Image
We, as film-makers, are privileged. We can make people cry or laugh. We can make them think and feel. It is a great privilege and a great responsibility.
Haskell Wexler
Image
I think the audience would like to see movies that are stunning to watch. I really think they'd like to see spectacles.
Jan de Bont
Image
The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
Conrad Hall
Image
We're all complex human beings, and if some of that complexity shows through, I think it's advantageous for the movie.
Jan de Bont
Image
You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought my work was being studied as ‘the right way to do the job’. My way is just one of an infinite number of ways to do the job.
Roger Deakins
Image
I know I will die with either a camera in hand or a woman on top - what more could one ask of life?
Christopher Doyle
Image
The helicopter was a U.S. Navy helicopter. There were no civilian helicopters available to film companies, so they just made some stuff out of two-by-four wood. And I would straddle a two-by-four out from the helicopter with a camera and what we call a high hat, which is a low metal stand.
Haskell Wexler
Image
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
Conrad Hall
Image
I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue.
Haskell Wexler
Image
One of my first films was Zebrahead. I remember the producer asking me, Can you handle the big lights? And I thought, Do I want to be sarcastic, or do I want the job? So I said, I don't handle the big lights, I just tell big men where to put the big lights and they do it.
Maryse Alberti
Previous
Next