Quotes About Cinematography

You can use martial arts to tell a different story. Ang Lee used martial arts in 'Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon' to talk about love.

You very seldom see a picture where you watch the process of falling in love.

There is a film called 'A Separation.' If you see it playing, go see it. It's beautiful. It's so well written and the acting is amazing. It's one of those films that you would love to be a part of.

I would very much like to make Westerns. I love Westerns. I've worked on many Westerns in my youth, in Spain and here, and I love working on them.

I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.

The film's dramatic requirements should always take precedence over the mere aesthetics of editing.

There are some long silences in Scandinavian and some Japanese films, when the audience knows action is taking place, but the audience hears no action.

When I'm actually assembling a scene, I assemble it as a silent movie. Even if it's a dialog scene, I lip read what people are saying.

If you give an actor a green screen, the shot may work, but that green screen will not inspire you on the set as a director or as an actor.

The new 'Avatar' BluRay is a lesson in filmmaking. It really is inspiring.

After I finished my degree in Mass Communication in Manipal, I enrolled for a cinematography course in Pune Film Institute. That is when Nandini Reddy, the director of 'Ala Modalaindi,' convinced me to act.

I'm a firm believer, and some people may disagree, and I'm happy to have a beer with them and talk about it, but I believe that locations are such an integral character to the movie.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

To clarify Rear Window, I'd suggest this parable: The courtyard is the world, the reporter/photographer is the filmmaker, the binoculars stand for the camera and its lenses. And Hitchcock? He is the man we love to be hated by.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

It was a small room with dim light coming in the window, reminiscent of old Polish films.

Of course, when you're making a documentary, you don't have actors, but nonetheless, there is a writing process that does take place in the editing room.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.

I got fired from a movie that ended up being called 'Windows,' which Gordon Willis, the cinematographer, directed. I got fired because he refused to cast Meryl Streep, who at the time was at Yale. I told him I thought he was an idiot, and he fired me.

I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later.

There are different cinema traditions in France, Spain and other European countries. There's a much stronger intellectual tradition: cinema is seen in a more serious way.

The way I work is, I always compose a shot list before I talk to anybody, including my DP. So I'll spend a couple months basically creating the movie in my head, so I have a very solid film in my head, where I know every shot, and I know what the transitions between scenes are.

I'm drawn to filmmaking that can transport me. Film can immerse you, put you there.

If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.