Beforehand Quote by Carine Roitfeld

The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.

— Paolo Sorrentino

The work is primarily subject-driven. All decisions flow from there. The photographs are all made in response to a unique subject, in particular context,…

— Gregory Heisler

The mindset that I have on every project I take on is, 'How do I make this interesting enough for me to want to…

— Aaron Ruell

Influences come from everywhere but when you are actually shooting you work primarily by instinct. But what is instinct? It is a lifetime accumulation…

— Arnold Newman

I always think instinct is more interesting than anything you can think up. I mistrust and am rather bored with actors who are of…

— Denholm Elliott

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.

— Peter Mullan

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

— Midge Decter

I work on instinct. It's my best adviser.

— Princess Diana

Instincts are a really important guide for any artist, but particularly filmmakers because it takes a lot to stay true to your instincts as…

— Yance Ford

I'm proposing to you that photography is a language on its own, which is that when you look at images you do derive ideas;…

— Gilles Peress

I think all my pictures are ideas, and they're ideas made into images.

— Bert Stern

When I make films I'm very intuitive; I'm instinctive. When you are shooting there's little time to think about abstract ideas, it's about getting…

— Olivier Assayas