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Film Cinematographer Inspirational Quotes (86)

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When I was in Vietnam with Jane Fonda, I was shooting a farmer in a field - just a pastoral scene. And while I was shooting him, an explosion occurred right - he blew up right in my lens, so to speak. And he had stepped on a landmine.
Haskell Wexler
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I really think music and movement - dance, you know - and literature inform my visuals. I think film is also based in dance. The relationship between me, the camera and the actor is always a dance.
Christopher Doyle
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Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.
Roger Deakins
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Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
Conrad Hall
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When I heard about the first Tomb Raider, I was very interested and I would have liked to have directed that. When I was approached for the second film, I was delighted.
Jan de Bont
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I think there are a lot more relationship scenes in my movies that people tend to overlook. A lot of scenes really feel real and are about the characters.
Jan de Bont
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At the beginning of my career, I shot a lot more documentaries because I liked the adventure, and probably also because it was easier, and still is easier, for women DPs to shoot documentary than it is to shoot fiction.
Maryse Alberti
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Lara Croft is such a strong individual, she's very driven, she doesn't need a man, she's speaks her own mind, and that she's in control of her own life. It's a lot of what women want and have.
Jan de Bont
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I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.
Conrad Hall
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When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.
Roger Deakins
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Sometimes it’s not how much light you use to get an effect, it’s how little you use and still make it work. There are a lot of rules to be broken in photography, and you’ve got to have courage.
James Wong Howe
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My best film is always my next film. I couldn't make Chungking Express now, because of the way I live and drink I've forgotten how I did it. I don't believe in film school or film theory. Just try and get in there and make the bloody film, do good work and be with people you love.
Christopher Doyle
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Photography must be integrated with the story.
James Wong Howe
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The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no possibility of Nuremberg [war crime trials], we're doomed to have it repeated.
Haskell Wexler
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Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
Conrad Hall
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I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like I was a man. Before that point for some reason, I always felt I was a boy (laughter). In fact, they called me the baby on the ship 'cause I was the youngest guy on the ship. But I always felt that way.
Haskell Wexler
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My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
Conrad Hall
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I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.
Roger Deakins
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There was no actually stock footage in Medium Cool. I wrote the script. I wrote the riots. And I integrated the actors in the film in the park during the demonstrations. But nowhere was it like we had stock footage and then later, in editing, integrated it into the film. It was all done at the time.
Haskell Wexler
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All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next door. You know what I mean? Just how similar we all are as individuals.
Roger Deakins
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I really believe action will always be there and will never disappear.
Jan de Bont
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When people have problems with their mortgages and jobs many feel they're a failure, they didn't work hard enough or speak well enough: It's their fault things are going so bad. When they see their bodies right there [at occupations], we have something profoundly in common.
Haskell Wexler
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The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.
Conrad Hall
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Your whole life informs your eye.
Roger Deakins
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