Background Quote by Tom Hooper

It's the most unrealistic thing you can do to shoot a close-up, and it's the most unrealistic place you can be as a performer.…

— Robert Zemeckis

One of the great things about working with Focus is that you're never forced, especially with a film with low budget. The pressure is…

— Cary Fukunaga

I think most of our eyes are trained to background being completely out of focus, but you can't do that with an iPhone unless…

— Sean Baker

For me, there's far too many close-ups in film. They're a television technique.

— Sam Levinson

When you do television, you're filming out of sequence sometimes. You have to ground yourself very quickly in the character and in the work…

— Adrienne C. Moore

I'm a big fan of being able to hold those long shots and use space. I don't know, I think everything's so quick cut…

— Alice Englert

On film, you really have to focus on what you're looking at. You're imprinting a physical image.

— Petra Collins

You tend to be more attentive when you shoot on film because, you know, it costs more, and everybody needs to be focused when…

— Yorgos Lanthimos

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you…

— Rachel Morrison

Everything about filmmaking tries to distract you from that first fine rapturous vision you have of the film.

— Ted Kotcheff

The traditional novel form continues to enlarge our experience in those very areas where the wide-angle lens and the Cinema screen tend to narrow…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

My focus are only films. There is something special about films as when it is being played in a dark theatre, the audience is…

— Tahir Raj Bhasin