Lighting Quotes - Page 9

• By examining characters lighting the way to hell, as it were, are readers spared iniquity? Are stories a heeded warning, or merely an entertainment? Each story in the collection tries to wrestle with these questions.

  Adam Ross

  Character, Trying, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Sunrays, leaning on our southern hills and lighting
  Wild cloud-mountains that drag the hills along,
  Oft ends the day of your shifting brilliant laughter
  Chill as a dull face frowning on a song.
  Ay, but shows the South-west a ripple-feathered bosom
  Blown to silver while the clouds are shaken and ascend
  Scaling the mid-heavens as they stream, there comes a sunset
  Rich, deep like love in beauty without end.

  George Meredith

  Song, Laughter, Sunset

  George Meredith, George Macaulay Trevelyan (1912). “The poetical works of George Meredith: with some notes”

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• Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble.

  Dennis Prager

  Christian, Religious, Artist

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• In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.

  Bruce Beresford

  Challenges, Viewpoints, Opera

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• Breakups usually don't happen down by the river with beautiful lighting. The moment you realize your relationship may be over might happen in Aisle 11 of Rite-Aid and the person you're with has disregarded your feelings and your needs by bringing you the wrong toothbrush again for the fourth time.

  Jay Duplass

  Beautiful, Breakup, Rivers

  Source: www.thewrap.com

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• 'How do you balance the creative with the biblical?' One could pick up the scripture and read it to oneself and you would be communing directly with that information. As soon as you go into film, as soon as there's a camera, and there's an angle, and there's lighting, and there's editing, you're into the adaptation.

  Joseph Fiennes

  Biblical, Editing, Creative

  "Joseph Fiennes on Risen and Retelling Jesus' "Unsettling" Story". Interview with Hannah Goodwyn, www1.cbn.com.

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• If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.

  J. B. Priestley

  Believe, Men, Museums

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• Nowadays, when you make movies, you don’t need any lights at all. You have to remember, back in the day, the film stocks that they had were very, very insensitive and they would have these humongous lights and lighting was everything, so everyone looked good. Nowadays with digital film where you don’t need any light at all, you could shoot in the [bleep] dark. It makes people not look so good and it makes aging on film much, much harder.

  Jamie Lee Curtis

  Dark, Light, People

  "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. September 21, 2012.

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• If she were (looking into my eyes), she’d have seen how absolutely floored I was the first time I finally, truly saw her. The clouds moved at just the right moment, fully lighting her face by the moon. She was dazzlingly beautiful. Underneath thick lashes were eyes blue as ice, something cool to balance out the flames in her hair. I felt a strange flutter in my chest, like the glow of a fireplace or the warmth of the afternoon. It stayed there for a moment, playing with my pulse.

  Kiera Cass

  Beautiful, Eye, Moon

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• Affirming words from moms and dads are like light switches. Speak a word of affirmation at the right moment in a child's life and it's like lighting up a whole roomful of possibilities.

  Gary Smalley

  Mom, Dad, Children

  Gary Smalley, John T. Trent (1995). “Leaving the Light On: Building the Memories That Will Draw Kids Home”, Multnomah

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• I realized early on that artifice attracted me to an image more than any other quality - I mean artifice in the sense of staging and heightened color and exaggerated lighting, not a surreal or fictive moment... I think the lighting and feeling of Cinemascope, the movies I saw as a kid, always stayed with me as a kind of glorious vision of reality.

  Laurie Simmons

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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• You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.

  Mary J. Blige

  Song, Different, Sometimes

  "Mary J. Blige Interview THE HELP". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 10, 2011.

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• ...I think finding that room to make pictures that don't jump off the wall as, or detonate as dramatic, either in lighting or in form or in composition or in subject matter, but more ordinary, that's the challenge.

  Larry Sultan

  Wall, Thinking, Challenges

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• Everything in the service needs to preach - architecture, lighting, songs, prayers, fellowship, the smell - it all preaches. All five senses must be engaged to experience God.

  Mark Driscoll

  Song, Prayer, Smell

  "What's Wrong With Candles, Incense, And Icons?", www.thebereancall.org. December 8, 2007.

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• Popular art is normally decried as vulgar by the cultivated people of its time; then it loses favor with its original audience as a new generation grows up; then it begins to merge into the softer lighting of

  Northrop Frye

  Art, Growing Up, People

  Northrop Frye (2015). “Anatomy of Criticism”, p.108, Princeton University Press

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• I worked on 'Sarah Connor' even longer than 'Firefly.' And I always remembered how generous everyone was to me when I didn't know what to do, and I didn't know the rules, and I didn't know camera angles, and I didn't know lighting.

  Summer Glau

  Firefly, Cameras, Camera Angles

  "‘Firefly’: Summer Glau reflects on Joss Whedon, sci-fi women and River’s edge". Interview with Noelene Clark, herocomplex.latimes.com. May 3, 2011.

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• If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.

  Matthew Modine

  Photography, Art, Space

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• People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

  Bernard Marcus

  Believe, People, Track

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• I'd hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, 'It's all make-up and lighting.

  Sophie McShera

  Beautiful, Hate, Really Beautiful

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• I feel also that the rhythm of a production is made by the lighting. If it feels like it's too long and too slow, it may well be because the light is changing in a way that makes the audience feel that way. Definitely I feel that light and music are very closely related.

  Jennifer Tipton

  Light, Long, May

  Source: theatrenow.wordpress.com

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• When money enters in - then, for a price, I become a liar - and a good one I can be whether with pencil or subtle lighting or viewpoint. I hate it all, but so do I support not only my family, but my own work.

  Edward Weston

  Hate, Liars, Support

  Edward Weston, Nancy Newhall (1990). “The daybooks of Edward Weston”

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• I don't make a lot of distinctions between things like landscape or figure painting, because to me the problems are inherently the same - lighting, color, structure, and so on - certainly traditional and ordinary problems.

  Wayne Thiebaud

  Color, Ordinary, Landscape

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• I don't like to be on a set and wait three hours, just to make some lighting adjustments. I like to shoot. That's what I want to do. I'd rather shoot something dumb than wait.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Waiting, Dumb, Three

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 25, 2013.

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• From the very beginning, I studied acting, directing, lighting, dance and movement. I didn't rely on just the magic to take place. It's a shame that a lot of magicians just rely on the trick itself and they have no other abilities. They get away with the wonder factor, and I don't think that's enough. It's great, but it's not enough.

  David Copperfield

  Thinking, Magic, Acting

  "David Copperfield Talks NOW YOU SEE ME on Blu-ray/DVD, His Collaboration on the Film, Drawing Inspiration from Cinema, and Being a Good Showman". Interview with Christina Raddish, collider.com. September 8, 2013.

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• I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.

  Seamus McGarvey

  Beautiful, Photography, Thinking

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