Cinematography Quotes · Page 5

I was in film school as an undergrad with a focus on directing. Once I started working on shoots, I realized, 'Oh,…

— Reed Morano

I'm mad, true. But only about one thing. Horror movies. I love spooks. They are a friendly fearsome lot. Very nice people,…

— Kishore Kumar

Light can be gentle, dangerous, dreamlike, bare, living, dead, misty, clear, hot, dark, violet, springlike, falling, straight, sensual, limited, poisonous, calm and…

— Sven Nykvist

The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also…

— Bun B

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

— Dustin Hoffman

The reason why I wanted to direct is because there are personal stories that I want to tell, but also because I…

— Jason Momoa

“Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and…

— Abhijit Naskar

Obviously, the cinematography of films is art, just as a still shot can be art. If I'm watching a Wes Anderson movie,…

— Frank Ocean

“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot…

— Abhijit Naskar

The cinematography was of course incredibly important to me because I graduated as a cinematographer.

— Pirjo Honkasalo

I am very much open to doing cinematography for any talented filmmaker, if the script is good.

— Rajiv Menon

I am drawn more towards Russian films owing to their compelling camera work, because of my own inclination towards cinematography.

— Victor Banerjee

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

— Abhijit Naskar

If there's an opportunity to tell a story through acting or directing or cinematography or a book, I will embrace that opportunity.

— Costa Ronin

Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really…

— Tom Verica

Television has got bigger and allowed cinematography to be a better on the smaller screen, using 'cinema-type' skills. When the shots and…

— Jason Watkins

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15.

— James Brolin

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

— Rob Zombie

The cinematography is as much involved with the physicality of the scene, so a lot of our shots are hand-held. I felt…

— J. Robert Spencer

People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.

— Roger Deakins

In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better.

— John Kricfalusi

If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but…

— William Monahan

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

— Reed Morano