Crafts Quote by Gordon Willis Download Open image “Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.” — Gordon Willis ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Crafts Done Electrician Good movie Help me Helping
I have to keep making films, getting better in my craft, and the way to do that is to work with people who know… — John David Washington Copy Share Image
I've had some of the best craft services on independent movies, actually, because they get more creative, generally, with a smaller budget. The work… — Jennifer Beals Copy Share Image
I'm still shooting on low budgets, though none of my movies has lost money, and I rarely get sent anything that stars a guy… — Nicole Holofcener Copy Share Image
I don't shoot movies quickly because I get a lot of coverage and a lot of angles, so we have all the pieces in… — Nancy Meyers Copy Share Image
If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time… — Roger Deakins Copy Share Image
Ultimately, making movies is a really, really small world. Being on sets and going to the same locations, like shooting in Shreveport, you're always… — Taylor Handley Copy Share Image
I've worked in the movie business for many, many years, where you have lots of days and lots of money. It's really mainly about… — Jonathan Nolan Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I hate when somebody says, "This may not work." You'll never get anywhere with that. I've pushed a lot of people out of my… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
A huge problem in movies or with people who work on movies is that two people can look at the same thing but they… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination.… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think,… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
She spent hours drawing on her own, trying to perfect her craft. And when she got into music, she had that same diligence in… — Laura Joplin Copy Share Image
All My Children taught me a great work ethic; you work so hard on a soap opera! It is a good way to start… — Eva LaRue Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
There is no royal path to good writing; and such paths as exist do not lead through neat critical gardens, various as they are,… — Jessamyn West Copy Share Image
The state of female artists is very good. But the very definition of art has been biased in that 'art' was what men did… — Gloria Steinem Copy Share Image
the twelve or fifteen millions in the British Empire, who, while they possess no electoral rights, are yet persuaded they are freemen, and who… — Richard Cobden Copy Share Image
I got Michael Caine's book, Acting In Film, and I read it on the plane, desperately trying to glean information from him about how… — Eric McCormack Copy Share Image
One of the things about what . . . I do - writing plays - is that a poll is not taken before you… — Wendy Wasserstein Copy Share Image
Look, I come from vaudeville, I come from burlesque, I come from heartaches, I come from sadness, I come from gladness, I come from… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
All the craft skills that I have, I feel like I developed and honed in drama school. It's the most important thing for me. — Andre Holland Copy Share Image
A first novel of astonishing force, craft and beauty, The Headmaster's Wager conjures up a dizzyingly evocative wartime Saigon in the story of Percival… — Janice Y. K. Lee Copy Share Image