Vilmos Zsigmond Quotes - Page 3

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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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• You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

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  Editors, Pieces, Digital

  Source: www.discdish.com

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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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• 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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• I'm not really satisfied with the technology today. Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems.

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  Technology, Today, Fixing

  Source: www.discdish.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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• Hayden [Sterling] told me that he was thrilled about the way he moved around the set, that wherever he would go, there would be lighting. He didn't think about his marks because they were set in the only places he could move.

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  Moving, Thinking, Would Be

  Source: www.discdish.com

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• There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.

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  Crazy, Stupid, People

  Source: www.chud.com

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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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  Directors, Needs, Answers

  Source: www.chud.com

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• With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.

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  Numbers, Television, Pages

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

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• I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

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  Writing, People, Scientist

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

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• Telling the story with only a few shots, I love that style. It makes you feel like you're part of the action, part of the story. It reminds me of the theater, where one act is basically like one long shot. It almost makes you forget that you're seeing a movie.

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  Long, Style, Stories

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

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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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  Hate, Two, Three

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Spielberg was very young and starting up when we did Sugarland Express and I loved that, but the main thing was that I really loved his talent.

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  Starting Up, Talent, Starting

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

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• You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it.

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  Independent, Dollars, Cost

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

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• Even in manipulating the images, I would like to do my dailies in a digital way because you can do so many things in that stage that I cannot do in real photography.

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  Photography, Real, Way

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

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• I like the film camera better because the film is still one hundred times better than any digital image at the moment. So, there are certain movies that you can't really do digitally.

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  Cameras, Digital, Film

  Source: www.chud.com

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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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  Believe, Thinking, Directors

  Source: www.chud.com

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• I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.

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  Space, People, Giving

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.

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  Technology, Editing, Editors

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

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• You always like to be the collaborator. I don't want to take over the movie, because if I want to do that, I should really become a director because then you have the control of everything, basically. I'm very happy to just be the visual part of it, doing the visual part of the movie.

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  Directors, Want, Should

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

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• When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

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  Art, Editing, Design

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

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