These days that wouldn't happen - waiting for the light to be exactly right. Because it takes time and time is money.… — Vilmos Zsigmond Actors 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 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 always try to tell the story the best possible way. I create the mood for each scene in a way that… — Vilmos Zsigmond Audience 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
If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong. — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinema 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
If you need to strap a camera to you or get in a small space, then it makes sense to use digital.I… — Vilmos Zsigmond Be good Copy Share Image
A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. — 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
The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and… — Vilmos Zsigmond Familiar 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
In fact, I probably learned more about photography from studying black-and-white photography in those magazines [Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine] than I… — Vilmos Zsigmond Black Copy Share Image
I like the film camera better because the film is still one hundred times better than any digital image at the moment.… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cameras Copy Share Image
When I first came to America there still was Look Magazine and LIFE Magazine, and the photography in those magazines was amazing… — Vilmos Zsigmond America Copy Share Image
I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty… — Vilmos Zsigmond Enjoy 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
There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who… — Vilmos Zsigmond Cinematographers 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
What I would suggest to the young people is to not forget this and don't try to get assimilated into today's Hollywood… — Vilmos Zsigmond Forget 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
I like to work with talented people, I must say that. That's my weakness. I really like to work with good directors.… — Vilmos Zsigmond Directors Copy Share Image
When we came to America, the movies here needed a "new wave." European films looked totally different than American movies, which were… — Vilmos Zsigmond America 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
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