Quotes About Cinematography

I love being on film sets even if I'm not acting in the film, and I'm fascinated by the work of the director of photography.

I hired people who would help me, you know, like a director of photography who wouldn't blind me with jargon about ratios and pull-downs.

In motion pictures, the actor rules. The camera served the actor.

I've always wanted to do a period piece.

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

I guess I've always been really attracted to period pieces and always felt visually I was probably more made for the '50s or the early '60s than I am for a modern day.

I love period pieces. But it's hard to get money to make costumed dramas, so we'll see.

You really get to direct the movie three times when it comes to the action sequences and the set pieces.

I love the 'Mildred Pierce' miniseries.

Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.

I wanted 'Night of the Living Dead' to look naturalistic, but we weren't able to do it because we were shooting with a blimped 35mm camera, which is automatically static.

I always wanted to make a film that had this sort of Chinese-box effect, in which you keep opening it up and opening it up, and finally at the end you're at the beginning.

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

Even if I had $200 million, I'm very wary of overusing CGI. I think it's a great tool and it can be used really effectively, but I feel like it does tend to be overused and especially in sci-fi stuff.

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

In Hollywood, the cameraman lights the star. In Europe, he lights the set.

I didn't even know I would be an actor; I always wanted to be a cameraman.

What's so fun when you shoot in a car is you get to research all the other road movies that have ever been done, and you try to figure out where do they place the cameras and how many shots can you get with your people in the car. So just doing the research on the films is so fun.

'Mildred' was the first film I shot on Super 16 with Ed Lachman, and we decided to continue doing so for 'Carol.'

Maybe because I come from choreography, I've always felt that there's something about action films that made it very natural for me to go that way. It's story through movement.

Shooting a fight is like shooting any other scene. You have to tell a story using a very specific choreography.

I'd never really shot action scenes before, but I realized early on that is very much like shooting choreography and dance.

I have always said that the biggest difference between stage and cinema is that one has got close-ups.