Cinematography Quote by Conrad Hall

Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.

— Violante Placido

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

— Robert Bresson

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

— Frank Ocean

The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of…

— Sally Potter

I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each…

— Shane Carruth

Cinema, for me, has always been something like music composed with photographic images.

— Roger Ebert

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative.…

— Emmanuel Lubezki

Cinema by itself is a language.

— Suhasini Maniratnam

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

— Jay Duplass

To me, a film is like a piece of architecture. There are so many details that all, in the end, end up being one…

— Andre Øvredal

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

— John Kricfalusi

Extending the language of film sometimes starts with just trying to show one true thing.

— Samuel Fuller