Believe Quote by Roger Deakins

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense…

— Roger Deakins

I think what happens normally in a narrative film is that the camera constructs the reality.

— Sam Seder

A deeper truth the camera can see can be more surprising than even the director imagined it could be. That's a wonderful thing that…

— Vanessa Redgrave

The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time.

— Sebastian Lelio

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

— Nicolas Roeg

I think when you pay attention to the shots, you're aware of the fact that there's a director. Really, it's the director's job to…

— Jason Reitman

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

— Robert Bresson

I was always very interested in the storytelling decisions that went into directing. It just held this real allure for me. You know, if…

— Fred Savage

Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war…

— Caleb Deschanel

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

— Gordon Willis

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think,…

— Gordon Willis

What makes a lot of suspenseful films work is very, very particular points of view and very subjective use of the camera.

— Karyn Kusama