Cinematography Quotes

• I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy. Is intent, is the balance between the familiar and the dream, it is being subjective and objective, it is being engaged and yet standing back and noticing something that perhaps other people didn’t notice before, or celebrating something that you feel is beautiful or valid, or true or engaging in some way.

  Christopher Doyle

  Beautiful, Dream, Thinking

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• Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

  Robert Bresson

  Writing, Sound

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• Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

  Robert Bresson

  Art, Military, Battle

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.15, New York Review of Books

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• I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.

  Scoot McNairy

  Photography, Courses

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

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

  Conrad Hall

  Language, Infinite, Possibility

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• And Later I Thought, I Can't Think How Anyone Can Become a Director Without Learning the Craft of Cinematography.

  Gus Van Sant

  Movie, Inspiring, Thinking

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• Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.

  Violante Placido

  Thinking, Different, Culture

  Source: collider.com

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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 think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.

  Christopher Doyle

  Inspirational, Motivational, Thinking

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  Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

  Jean-Luc Godard

  Movie, Beautiful, Gambling

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

  Dustin Hoffman

  Sad, Depression, Bored

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• Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and soft.

  Sven Nykvist

  Fall, Dark, Light

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• I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

  Vilmos Zsigmond

  Dark, Light, Shadow

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

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• You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

  Nicolas Roeg

  Simple, Ideas, Sound

  "His brilliant career". Interview with Jason Wood, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2005.

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• There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

  Gordon Willis

  Photography, Imagination, Vision

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• When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean something. You've got to know why you're doing it; it's got to be for a reason within the story, and to further the story.

  Roger Deakins

  Movie, Moving, Mean

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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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• Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator.

  Vsevolod Pudovkin

  Movie, Editing, Directors

  "Watch: 5 Master Editing Techniques That Appear in Everything From ‘Psycho’ to ‘Hugo’" by Casey Cipriani, www.indiewire.com. October 9, 2013.

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• All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without story, there is no screenplay.

  Syd Field

  Drama, Character, Cinema

  Syd Field (2009). “Four Screenplays: Studies in the American Screenplay”, p.17, Delta

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• I'm proud of the way I rearrange and put things together, like a chef who makes a great meal, or a filmmaker who puts together a story - it's casting, editing, cinematography.

  Bonnie Raitt

  Editing, Together, Stories

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

  Robert Bresson

  Order, Two, Use

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.10, New York Review of Books

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• I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".

  Mabel Cheung

  Beautiful, Powerful, Piano

  Source: blogs.indiewire.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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• The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.

  Robert Bresson

  Taken, Race, Lasts

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.56, New York Review of Books

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• The cinematography was of course incredibly important to me because I graduated as a cinematographer.

  Pirjo Honkasalo

  Important, Courses, Cinematographers

  Source: blogs.indiewire.com

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