Aesthetic Quote by Erika Lust

Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the…

— Taika Waititi

I wanted to make a cinema of ideas, not plots, and to use the same aesthetics as painting, which has always paid great attention…

— Peter Greenaway

There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

— William Shatner

The films I love are very precise, and every shot means something; every shot should convey something new.

— David Lowery

We really like to express ourselves artistically with all of the visuals and the theatrical side. It all plays a really important part to…

— Maria Brink

Visually, I want to try everything. But I believe that every shot of my films really expresses what I think about the story and…

— Takashi Miike

“No other art can compare with cinema in the force, precision, and starkness with which it conveys awareness of facts and aesthetic structures existing…

— Andrei Tarkovsky

I began to see cinema as the perfect combination of so many wonderful art forms - painting, photography, music, dance, theater.

— James Gray

The thing that interests me about photography, and why it's different from all other media, is that it's the only medium in which there…

— Chuck Close

As you can probably tell, I like films and directors that bring a totally unique style to filming action.

— John Foster

Telling the story with only a few shots, I love that style. It makes you feel like you're part of the action, part of…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

I like shooting things in single takes. You have to rely on the idea itself to carry the full weight; you're always watching the…

— Damian Kulash