You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve. — Vilmos Zsigmond Change Copy Share Image
For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book. — Vilmos Zsigmond Book Copy Share Image
I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up… — Vilmos Zsigmond Call me Copy Share Image
I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cameraman Copy Share Image
Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see. — Vilmos Zsigmond Artistic Copy Share Image
There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie. — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way. — Vilmos Zsigmond America Copy Share Image
I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something… — Vilmos Zsigmond Add Copy Share Image
Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And… — Vilmos Zsigmond Bergman Copy Share Image
There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a… — Vilmos Zsigmond Answers Copy Share Image
When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own… — Vilmos Zsigmond Art Copy Share Image
You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I… — Vilmos Zsigmond Advantage Copy Share Image
Spielberg was very young and starting up when we did Sugarland Express and I loved that, but the main thing was that… — Vilmos Zsigmond Film Copy Share Image
I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to… — Vilmos Zsigmond Actors Copy Share Image
I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, 'Jesus, how could they have let us make that?' I mean, if you… — Vilmos Zsigmond Hollywood Copy Share Image
Telling the story with only a few shots, I love that style. It makes you feel like you're part of the action,… — Vilmos Zsigmond Action Copy Share Image
I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I… — Vilmos Zsigmond Able Copy Share Image
There is a difference between creating something and just capturing something. And when we were using film, it was not that fast,… — Vilmos Zsigmond Bypass Copy Share Image
Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it… — Vilmos Zsigmond Advantage Copy Share Image
European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't… — Vilmos Zsigmond Art Copy Share Image
When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
We used hand-held cameras 50 years ago. It wasn't something new. Sometimes we used a tripod, or we'd have a tracking shot,… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cameras Copy Share Image
It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cold Copy Share Image
I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all… — Vilmos Zsigmond Advice Copy Share Image
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong. — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock. — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it. — Vilmos Zsigmond Best way Copy Share Image
I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera. — Vilmos Zsigmond Behinds Copy Share Image
I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cameras Copy Share Image
There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that. — Vilmos Zsigmond Mood Copy Share Image
As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well. — Vilmos Zsigmond Actor Copy Share Image
I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp. — Vilmos Zsigmond Crisps Copy Share Image
I'm always looking for directors who are very strong, they have great ideas, but on the other hand, that need help. It… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional. — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema Copy Share Image
I don't think there is any advantage to digital unless it's in a case like Slumdog Millionaire, where you have to get… — Vilmos Zsigmond Advantage Copy Share Image
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