Design Quote by Rachel Morrison

I think all cinematographers, at least most of them, would love to do everything on location because you cannot cheat on location. It's there,…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

When you move handheld, and the director of photography has the courage to shoot with no lights, the set becomes a space of creativity…

— Jean-Marc Vallee

I was thinking about time, how on a movie set the shot is maintained in the same time no matter how many takes and…

— Eleanor Coppola

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

It's nice to film in somewhere that you actually love being. Usually, you're in a studio for months on end, and you never see…

— Felicity Jones

These days that wouldn't happen - waiting for the light to be exactly right. Because it takes time and time is money. And with…

— Vilmos Zsigmond

Usually, if you notice good cinematography, then the cinematographer's failing. I try to make light feel like it's always motivated and natural in some…

— Rachel Morrison

Life is unpredictable, and I feel, to some extent, lighting and cinematography should be a reflection of that.

— Rachel Morrison

I produce the way I would love to be produced: In ways to create the best conditions to make your movie, but also to…

— Alfonso Cuaron

All these directors who do different locations forget that one room can be shot from a million different angles and a million different ways.…

— Michael Pitt

A lot of the time with an independent production, you go onto the set, and you rehearse it in front of the crew, and…

— Martin Landau

...photography is made essentially of time. I often think that what we show is a point in time, more than a window onto space.

— Frank Horvat