Cinematographers Quotes

• Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

  Conrad Hall

  Language, Infinite, Possibility

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• A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

  Gordon Willis

  Moving, Dark, Thinking

  "Remembering Gordon Willis, ASC" by Jon Fauer, www.fdtimes.com. May 20, 2014.

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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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• I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

  Roger Deakins

  Believe, Cameras, Mystery

  Interview with Jeff Bridges, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 6, 2015.

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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.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Directors, Needs, Answers

  Source: www.chud.com

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• Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

  Conrad Hall

  Way, Problem, Problem Solving

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• But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

  Conrad Hall

  Heart

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• The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

  Paolo Sorrentino

  Ideas, Principles, Way

  "Paolo Sorrentino Talks Roman Decadence in 'The Great Beauty'". Interview with Brian Brooks, www.filmlinc.org. November 14, 2013.

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• The art of making films is a collaborative art. As a composer, you're always working with the cinematographer because he's so much the heart of the world they've created on film.

  Howard Shore

  Art, World, Film

  Source: collider.com

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• The cinematography is as much involved with the physicality of the scene, so a lot of our shots are hand-held. I felt the cinematographer needed to be the fourth-character with the same drive as the actors

  J. Robert Spencer

  Character, Hands, Actors

  "J. Robert Spencer: Jersey Boy & Movie Man". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. November 13, 2007.

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• I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

  Jake Gyllenhaal

  Profound, Secret, Sauce

  "10 Years After 'Brokeback,' Jake Gyllenhaal Remembers Heath Ledger: 'Way Beyond His Years as a Human'". Interview with Stephen Galloway, www.hollywoodreporter.com. November 25, 2015.

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• I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

  Christopher Bollen

  Veterinarian, Wanted

  "'Morrissey's hair, bongs made of apples, MTV's 120 Minutes': Inside this month's hottest new books". Interview with Teddy Wayne, www.salon.com. May 20, 2015.

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• We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

  Damian Loeb

  Art, Directors, Conform

  "Damian Loeb Brings Hyperrealism To Another Level (NSFW PHOTOS)", www.huffingtonpost.com. July 30, 2013.

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• The visualization of my films is always very important to me and I work very closely with my cinematographers. I've never had the same cinematographer twice now that I think about it. I don't know why that is. Everyone is always busy. They do three or four films a year. It's vital to me.

  Scott Hicks

  Thinking, Years, Important

  Source: collider.com

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• An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.

  Donnie Yen

  Moving, Directors, Cameras

  "Interview with Action Film Star Donnie Yen". "Talk Asia", www.cnn.com. October 19, 2011.

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• For many years I thought, "Well, I need to know a lot more to direct." But I looked around and watched all the people I know directing and thought, "No. I just need to know what I want it to be." Then there will be a lot of people to help me get it to there, especially Bobby Bukowski, he's a brilliant cinematographer.

  Naomi Foner Gyllenhaal

  Years, People, Needs

  "Naomi Foner and the Importance of Being Earnest". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 22, 2014.

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• I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

  Eric Bana

  Interesting, Trying, Directors

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• The secret is to get a good cinematographer and a very good assistant director. If you get those and stay out of their way, and have good actresses, the script doesn't even have to be that extraordinary.

  Lester Persky

  Secret, Way, Scripts

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the film, however it's done, is still the cinematographer's vision in my mind. People said the same when color film came in, didn't they? The world evolves, and image-making evolves.

  Roger Deakins

  Stupid, Color, People

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• I think I learned a lot on Beaches. A guy I worked with Dante Spinotti is a wonderful cinematographer and it was his first picture and he went on to be nominated for an Academy Award for "LA Confidential" which was great.

  Garry Marshall

  Beach, Thinking, Awards

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

  Steven Bochco

  Giving, Directors, Blueprints

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• In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.

  Max Bemis

  Coffee, Fighting, Directors

  "SeagateCreative Interviews EVIL EMPIRE Writer – Max Bemis". SeagateCreative Interview, blog.seagate.com.

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• Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

  Jennifer O'Neill

  Light, Used, Knows

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• I worked with the same producer from The Freebie, my cinematographer was one of my shooters from The Freebie. I was really aiming to tackle a genre, but sorta tackle it in my own way, and put my stamp on it, and the way that I like to see movies made.

  Katie Aselton

  Way, Shooter, Made

  Source: www.gq.com

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• I think that digital is offering many great possibilities for cinematographers. Particularly in urban cityscapes and low light photography its allowing us to render what we actually see with our eyes; which is interesting.

  Seamus McGarvey

  Photography, Eye, Thinking

  Source: collider.com

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