Cinematography Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Movie, Work, Drinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Music is, for me, a great tool of a filmmaker, the same way cinematography, the acting, editing, post-production, the costumes are. You know, to help you tell a story.

  Spike Lee

  Editing, Acting, Way

  "Interview: Investigating ‘Da Sweet Blood of Jesus’ w/ Spike Lee + Lead Actors Zaraah Abrahams and Stephen Tyrone Williams". Interview with Zeba Blay, www.indiewire.com. June 26, 2014.

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• Anybody can direct a picture once they know the fundamentals. Directing is not a mystery, it's not an art. The main thing about directing is: photograph the people's eyes.

  John Ford

  Photography, Art, Eye

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

  Rob Zombie

  Years, Watches, Admire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

  John Kricfalusi

  Writing, Today, Old Movie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.

  Lasse Hallstrom

  Father, Passion, Dentist

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• Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.

  Shane Carruth

  Photography, Looks, Snapshots

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen.

  Priyanka Chopra

  Editing, People, Want

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.

  Rob Zombie

  Art, Memorable, Night

  Source: www.complex.com

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• When I was young, I believed in three things: Marxism, the redemptive power of cinema, and dynamite. Now I just believe in dynamite.

  Sergio Leone

  Funny, Movie, Humorous

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• As important as it is to learn the techniques of cinematography, you also have to learn how to deal with the movie set, with show business. I came up with a cinematographer who is very talented, but she was never quite able to handle everything else you have to do - dealing with the producer and the crew and the time frame that you have to follow.

  Maryse Alberti

  Important, Technique, Able

  "The Female Cinematographers of Neon Demon, Creed, and Dope Discuss Their Experiences in a Male-Dominated Field". Interview with Kevin Lincoln, www.vulture.com. June 27, 2016.

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• To the question, ‘Is the cinema an art?’ my answer is, ‘what does it matter?’... You can make films or you can cultivate a garden. Both have as much claim to being called an art as a poem by Verlaine or a painting by Delacroix… Art is ‘making.’ The art of poetry is the art of making poetry. The art of love is the art of making love... My father never talked to me about art. He could not bear the word.

  Jean Renoir

  Love, Art, Father

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• People, chained by monotony, afraid to think, clinging to certainties... they live like ants.

  Bela Lugosi

  Life, Thinking, People

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• There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

  Helena Christensen

  Gone, Care, Speed

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.

  Bun B

  Lying, Moving, Character

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• I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again.

  Shane Carruth

  Believe, Writing, Stories

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• Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.

  Scoot McNairy

  Wish, Wow, Like You

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 1, 2014.

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• Give me B movies or give me death!

  Clive Barker

  Movie, Giving, Cinema

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Apr 16, 2013

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• I am a huge fan of movies. It is my favorite thing during downtime. I get completely lost in films. I find them transformative, even one that seems light and popcorn. I get something profound with the right music played with what I am watching. If there is good cinematography and good acting you can find something that really stays with you. I really enjoy being part of that collaborative process. I like making something really big that will be seen in a theater by a lot of people. There is nothing like it.

  KT Tunstall

  People, Profound, Acting

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show.

  Jason Dohring

  Home, Writing, Heart

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• If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

  Kathryn Bigelow

  Movie, Inspiring, Sex

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I remember the first film I reviewed for the Daily was a John Ford Western. I think it was My Darling Clementine, but I am not certain. And I was just impressed by, first, the story itself. I didn't know that much about films. But the acting, the director. And particularly, the cinematography, the black-and-white use of exteriors, I noted particularly.

  Roger Corman

  Thinking, Acting, Remember

  Source: www.hollywoodreporter.com

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• Hey, I know it's Monday, but it's also a new day, a new week and in that lies a new opportunity for something special to happen.

  Michael Ealy

  Inspirational, Monday, Lying

  Twitter post from Jun 4, 2012

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• I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you revere. The other big contribution to this, which most people I show footage to take note of is Mauro Fiore's cinematography is unbelievable.

  Shawn Anthony Levy

  People, Giving, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.

  George Lucas

  Photography, Art, School

  "Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

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