Cinematography Quotes

I don't come from a film background. I haven't learned anything about films or film-making. But I have a thirst to know everything about my profession. I want to learn about cinematography, about editing, about music recordings, about post-production. So when people in the know talk, I willingly listen. (Priyanka Chopra)
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds. View quote
Robert Bresson
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. View quote
Conrad Hall
I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The cinematography - different from any other show. View quote
Jason Dohring
I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15. View quote
James Brolin
My father would tell anyone who would listen that this dentist thing he was doing was not his passion; cinematography was. View quote
Lasse Hallstrom
You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me. View quote
Nicolas Roeg
I believe that filmmakers have to internalize the story and subtext so well that all of the departments can start to speak to each other - that music can speak to cinematography can speak to writing and back again. View quote
Shane Carruth
I like movies where you can come back and re-watch them and admire the cinematography 25 years later. View quote
Rob Zombie
Sydney: Imagine the cinematography if Ennis and Jack had been able to live together. Sweeping vistas of their couples therapist's office. View quote
Alison Bechdel
Despite the 43 years I've devoted to cinematography, I must admit that I was scarcely prepared for the many problems which were to confront me upon my initial excursion into the realm of television with the "I Love Lucy" show. Fortunately, this motion picture experience helped to cushion many of the serious problems and aided me in adapting myself to this new medium. (Karl Freund)
The body moves through space every day, and in architecture in cities that can be orchestrated. Not in a dictatorial fashion, but in a way of creating options, open-ended sort of personal itineraries within a building. And I see that as akin to cinematography or choreography, where episodic movement, episodic moments, occur in dance and film. View quote
Antoine Predock
There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography. View quote
Helena Christensen
In 'Tree of Life,' the cinematography records a small story, a celebration of the courage of everyday life. But it does it so up close and so effortlessly that it has the effect of elevating the intimacy of the story to a grand scale. View quote
Caleb Deschanel
I think there were some dubious feelings about it, that the first 'Scarface' would not be surpassed by the second 'Scarface.' We were wrong; it surpassed it. The acting talent, the cinematography - we were propelled into a real class action film. Long after I kick the bucket, it'll be played. View quote
Robert Loggia
Right before 'American Dreams,' I started to pursue these avenues, like short films and getting into a couple night courses to really study photography and cinematography, and the language of visual storytelling. View quote
Tom Verica
I was incredibly excited. Because my father was a clergyman we never got our presents on Christmas Eve, like other Swedish children do. We got them on Christmas Day... Well, you can imagine my disappointment when it turned out to be my older brother - he's four years older than myself - who got the projector - and I was given a teddy bear. It was one of my life's bitterest disappointments. After all, my brother wasn't a scrap interested in cinematography. But both of us had masses of lead soldiers. So on Boxing Day I bought the projector off him for half my army and he beat me hollow in every war ever afterwars. But I'd got the projector, anyway. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
In old movies, the cinematography is a thousand times better than anything today. Writing, a thousand times better. View quote
John Kricfalusi
He definiteley thinks in colored images. Ein Heldenleben is a book of images, cinematography even. View quote
Richard Strauss