You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds…

All drama is conflict. Without conflict, there is no action. Without action, there is no character. Without character, there is no story. And without…

— Syd Field

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Micky was a hard taskmaster. He could be very unkind. He was out to judge people, I think pretty quickly, and once he’d made…

— Christopher Challis

The incredible cinematography makes 'A Walk to Beautiful' almost like a poem; there is a tenderness on display that seems to emanate from the…

— Abraham Verghese

Ashok Mehta was the man who brought contrast and lighting back to mainstream Hindi film cinematography.

— Rajiv Menon

I believe if you come out of a movie and the first thing you say is, 'The cinematography was beautiful,' it's a bad movie.

— John Waters

The quality of television is becoming so good from an actor standpoint, where you get to do these amazing scenes with amazing directors and…

— Cobie Smulders

I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

— Vilmos Zsigmond

What interested me in film was the image-making aspect of it. So, I went to school in cinematography. I was really convinced that image…

— Babette Mangolte

It's infrequent that that happens - great performances and magical cinematography and great direction.

— Christopher Guest

The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance,…

— Chika Anadu

The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a…

— Antoine Predock

I think the cinematography in 'Mr. Robot' is some of the best I've ever seen, honestly. Not even as being part of the show…

— Stephanie Corneliussen

Cinematography speaks to everything that women do inherently well: It's multitasking, it's empathy, and it's channeling visuals into human emotion.

— Rachel Morrison

I've always really loved cinematography and glamorous old Hollywood movies and they go hand in hand.

— Violet Chachki