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As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.
Vilmos Zsigmond
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Vilmos Zsigmond
Age: 85 †
Born: 1930
Born: June 16
Died: 2016
Died: January 1
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Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see.
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There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.
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Kubrick was one of those directors who actually did practically everything in his movies. He actually directed, photographed, wrote, lit, edited - everything. A few people can be like that.
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I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.
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I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.
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Jack [Nicholson] really knows about the camera. He's one of the directors who likes to play with the camera. He'll change things around, play with lighting, things like that. He'll even spend hours on the set-up for an insert shot. He's an interested person who gets involved in all the aspects of the films he is making.
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When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all his own ideas and I can only just help him with that. I cannot change his idea.
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As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.
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I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera.
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I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.
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For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.
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I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty seconds or one minute, you can make some remarkable work shooting in one or two or three days.
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Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.
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There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said something like, in the future they will actually manipulate the actors on their computers. But don't believe all this.
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I like to work with talented people, I must say that. That's my weakness. I really like to work with good directors. That doesn't mean I don't like to work with starting up young directors, that's fun also.
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Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in available light.
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When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing to look at. They had the best portraits, and their news photography.
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If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.
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There is something more to reality than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.
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I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.
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