Quotes About Cinematography

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

Even though I love Hindi films, I don't remember any backdrop visuals that are really striking.

It is so beautiful that when you watch the film, the marriage between the visuals, the music and the storytelling is seamless.

Live-action films are very much a director's medium, and that director is going to be a very strong voice, a stronger individual voice than you'd have in animation.

I found in making and directing films that the less you have voiceover, the better it is.

I got used to long takes with 'Irreversible' and 'Enter the Void' and also with 'Love.'

I've learned a lot about getting film sensibilities on digital.

I don't want to be someone whose shot takes you out of the dramatic sequence or takes you out of the emotional story that you're trying to tell or says, 'Hey, look at this cool shot I have here.' To me, that's not right.

I don't like to shoot on sets at all. As much as possible, I try to shoot on location.

I don't think 'Lootera' is slow paced; it's finely paced for its setting and story.

I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

In a very real sense, all you do when you're shooting film or television is you shoot a scene, and then you shoot another scene, and then you shoot another scene.

I don't remember scenes. I'm like, 'Really, we shot that?'

TV helped me understand camera angles, close-ups, master shots.

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.

Try to place the camera somewhere where you get most of the information from there, so you don't need to have too many shots and be too explanatory and expositional about the scene.

I've storyboarded for things other people have shot. So thinking in shots and orchestrating shots is not foreign to me at all.

Having grown up watching my father direct films and having worked with him and my brother, I know how films are made, how shots are taken.

Filmmaking is something that I'm really passionate about. Film, in general, is something that I'm passionate about.

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment.

I'm very impressed by films like' Whiplash' or what Fincher does, where you get all these different... Where you get all this coverage that's perfectly linked up. I actually find coverage very confusing. But I love sequencing shots because I know exactly where I am.

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

La Strada, Yojimbo, Ikiru, The Bridge, Rififi, Bicycle Thieves, Rocco and His Brothers, Open City, Seven Samurai, Le Doulos, Bitter Rice (which Cliff thought was sexy as hell).

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.