Cinematography Quotes
Cinematography Quote of the day
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.
Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.
I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.
My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was.
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.
I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".
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.
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.
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.
The cinematography was of course incredibly important to me because I graduated as a cinematographer.
The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.
I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.
And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.
A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.
Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.
Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.
The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.
Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.
Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.
Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.
Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.
A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.
Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.
Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.
