Quotes About Cinematographers

A lot of male cinematographers stick a pillow to their stomachs so they have somewhere to rest their elbows while shooting.

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

I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

There are artists or filmmakers or cinematographers who have had long careers who, maybe to reinvent themselves or just to stay in a secure place, layer it on or ham it up, if I can use that expression, or make grand choices that don't feel as authentic as what they did to make us fall in love with them in the first place.

After 50 years in the motion picture business, I'm still learning my trade. This recent shoot of 'Mandie and the Secret Tunnel' was a revelation. The two young directors, Joy Chapman and Owen Smith, represent a group of actors, directors, and cinematographers all over the country that never show up in New York or Hollywood.

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

There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.

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

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