Quotes About Cinematography

The lies are in the dialogue, the truth is in the visuals.

My job is to create a film, where we are capturing truth in performances.

I do understand sometimes when actors say there's no one to talk to, or you can't react to, there's truth in that, but for me, I've always enjoyed green screen, and blue screen.

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that grows and happens in films.

The scenes in 'The Virgin Suicides' where Elle Fanning is ice skating are really amazing.

I love filming in Britain.

I love being so tight on people in close-ups that the veins in their eyes look like the Mississippi River.

I really, really love directing films.

I love directing Shakespeare on film. It's fantastic that the actors would do exactly the same thing and be true to their part.

I love directing scenes that I'm not in because suddenly I really feel like a filmmaker which is a different thing.

It's one of the things I love about making films: the places I've got to travel that I would never have gone to before.

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

I think it's always harder in a film to convey intimacy.

So Colleen Atwood introduced me to Armani for the fabric and the dyes - what made Armani, Armani, beyond his motion-picture credentials. It was Cerruti after that. And then Zegna.

A lot of cinematography is intuition. It's an art, not a formula.

The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.

I love James Cameron. I love what he does.

Today you have something like A Film by Joe Harry. That is patently asinine and ridiculous.

An editor does not just join shots. He creates emotions out of the shots.

I was saying as a joke the other day that I love film editing, I know how to cut a picture, I think I know how to shoot it, but I don't know how to light it. And I realize it's because I didn't grow up with light. I grew up in tenements.

Whenever I think about movies, I always look at that art process as having the best of a lot of worlds. Because if you watch a great film, you have a musical element to it, not just on the scoring, but in the way that the shots are edited - that has music and rhythm and time.

I feel like I'm a filmmaker; I don't feel I need to yell action and cut.

New York is a character, all on its own, and whenever you film there, it becomes part of the show. That's just the nature of being there.

In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale.