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“I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera.”

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Vilmos Zsigmond was an accomplished cinematographer, best known for his work on Martin Scorsese's 'Taxi Driver'. His distinctive style and innovative techniques have had a profound impact on the art of cinematography. more

“Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it.”

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“I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.”

People Knows Giving I Can Space Give Me Add

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“You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it.”

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“There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said something like, in the future they will actually manipulate the actors on their computers. But don't believe all this.”

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“I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera.”

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“I like the film camera better because the film is still one hundred times better than any digital image at the moment. So, there are certain movies that you can't really do digitally.”

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