Vilmos Zsigmond Quotes - Page 2

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• There is a difference between creating something and just capturing something. And when we were using film, it was not that fast, and it was expensive, so there was incentive to make sure the shot was exactly right before we rolled. With digital, it's fast and its cheap, and it's easy to bypass the rest.

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  Differences, Creating, Incentives

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• We used hand-held cameras 50 years ago. It wasn't something new. Sometimes we used a tripod, or we'd have a tracking shot, and sometimes - like when a character was being chased - we used a hand-held camera because it was right for the scene. In those cases, it helped the mood; it created immediacy and a feeling for the viewer that they were in the scene and in the moment.

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  Character, Hands, Years

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• When we came to America, the movies here needed a "new wave." European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush, glossy pictures with this elaborate production design.

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  America, Design, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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  Photography, America, Portraits

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think all cinematographers, at least most of them, would love to do everything on location because you cannot cheat on location. It's there, it's part of the story usually. You have to deal with the elements. You have the sunshine, you have rain, you have fog - it really makes you work harder to try to match things during the day to make it look like it was shot within five minutes, movie time.

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  Rain, Hard Work, Sunshine

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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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  Ideas, People, Directors

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.

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  Jesus, Mean, Technology

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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  Play, Likes, Cameras

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.

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  Together, Agents, Film

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Call Me, Retired

  "Interview: Cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Laurence Lerman, www.discdish.com. January 11, 2016.

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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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  People, Directors, Lit

  Source: www.chud.com

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• What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood style of movies because I don't think it's going to last long.

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  Thinking, Long, People

  "Chud Rerun: Interview with Vilmos Zsigmond". Interview with Smilin' Jack Ruby, trouble.city. May 13, 2002.

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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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  Fun, Mean, Starting Up

  Source: www.chud.com

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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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  Landscape, Photographer, Wells

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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  Style, Mind, Directors

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• I am not against digital at all.

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  Digital

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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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  Artistic, Hard

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In Slumdog Millionaire when you are immersed in the point of view of children in the slum and the bustle of the city, the handheld camerawork is amazing. A handheld camera is perfect for establishing point-of-view and for instilling the feeling that you are there.

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  Children, Views, Cities

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and it's not a model that can necessarily be sustained. Now, if they go back to making movies about people ... well, I hope they do that.

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  People, Type, Familiar

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't shot in sound studios, and that's a good thing, because in the studio system those movies would never have had a chance. And since we were coming from Europe, it was natural for us to use that simple style. Small budgets, less equipment, that was just how it was.

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  Art, Simple, Europe

  Source: www.pbs.org

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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.

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  Directors, Actors, Brilliant

  Source: www.discdish.com

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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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  Clever, Thinking, Giving

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• Technology has a great deal to do with it. The Panaflex camera was a big breakthrough when it came along; it changed everything, because now you could shoot from the perspective of a person riding in the backseat of a car.

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  Technology, Perspective, Car

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I was really fortunate from the time I arrived in Hollywood to work with some of the greatest directors from the beginning. I worked with Robert Altman, John Boorman, and of course Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, Brian De Palma ... I couldn't pick one of them; they were all different, but they are all so talented.

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  Directors, Hollywood, Different

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I did from watching movies here. That's the truth.

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  Photography, Black And White, Looks

  Source: www.pbs.org

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