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Film Cinematographer Inspirational Quotes (86)

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Images, not words, capture feelings in faces nothing can ruin the atmosphere as easily as too much light.
Sven Nykvist
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I am known for what I'm do. But I'm not a five-year-old Hong Konger, I'm not a kid demonstrating in the streets.
Christopher Doyle
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Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it on these poor cowboys, who - many of whom who've died of emphysema since we were shooting.
Haskell Wexler
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I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.
Conrad Hall
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I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.
Roger Deakins
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I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.
Maryse Alberti
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One of the most amazing locations I've ever been is the top of the volcano in Tanzania, Africa. It's an actual volcano where you really have this lava every day.
Jan de Bont
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Equipment makes my job easier, but it doesn't affect my style.
Michael Seresin
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Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.
Sven Nykvist
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I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.
Christopher Doyle
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You don't want to have to chase the action. Get yourself in the right place and the action comes to you.
Chris Menges
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This film, Tomb Raider 2, is a big challenge. It's quite exhausting.
Jan de Bont
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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
Conrad Hall
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Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.
Jan de Bont
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Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.
Roger Deakins
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I'm really interested in experimental works, so the people that I admired the most was Dziga Vertov, Sergey Eisenstein, people from the '20s. Also, I loved John Ford and his westerns. The New Wave was not tender to women.
Babette Mangolte
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When you hear the word tear gas you think, well, your eyes will burn and that's it. But that whole feeling of your whole skin burning, that you can't breathe, you can't inhale, you feel suffocated - it's a very, very terrifying experience.
Haskell Wexler
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Summer movies are spectacles that's what you pay 10 dollars to see. You want to get teased by effects sometimes. I think that will never stop.
Jan de Bont
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If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system.
Haskell Wexler
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It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
Conrad Hall
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There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
Conrad Hall
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I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man.
Haskell Wexler
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When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quite a surprise how I found myself shooting features. It was like my wildest dreams as a kid collided.
Roger Deakins
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Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I feel I'm the first person watching it. I always get pleasure out of that.
Roger Deakins
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