“Composition in photography is almost as varied as composition in music or words -- melodic or atonal, safe or daring -- and can enhance subject, theme, and style. Every photograph you take involves you in some compositional decision, even if this is simply where to set up the camera or when to press the button.” IfsDecisionSubjectsStyleSafePhotographyCamerasPressesPhotographThemeDaringCompositionButtons Book:Basic Photography Source: Basic Photography
“Acting is everything to me and it's at the core of every decision. Whatever importance costumes, details, lights, camera, dialogue and everything else have, if the acting is bad, cheap, or overdone everything else is just gone.” IfsLightDecisionActingGoneImportanceCamerasDetailsCoreDialogueCostumes Author:Xavier Dolan
“What motivates every other decision artistically or technically is the acting. This is what motivates everything. Never can a camera move be incompatible with the emotion of the actor at that moment. The movement, the style, the atmosphere, everything is dictated by the actor.” MomentsMovingActorsDecisionActingEmotionStyleMovementCamerasAtmosphereThat Moment Author:Xavier Dolan
“What I love about directing is finding common ground in complementary palate with wardrobe, set design, the camera department, the makeup department, et cetera. I love figuring out that synergy. To have everything work in concert is amazing, I love working with that kind of logic. Directing is a cavalcade of taste decisions - this one or that one, but I raather enjoy it and am in the process of setting up the next endeavor.” KindNextProcessEnjoyDecisionCommonDesignTasteFindingsLogicCamerasSettingSettingsDepartmentMakeupEndeavorConcertsWardrobeCommon GroundPalateSynergyComplementary Author:Billy Zane
“The camera is objective. When it records a face it can't make any hierarchical decisions about a nose being more important than a cheek. The camera is not aware of what it is looking at. It just gets it all down.” ImportantFacesDecisionRecordsCamerasObjectivesNosesCheeks Author:Chuck Close
“The biggest considerations I had were practical: how do you move such a large number of actors around a small space? So, for example, if I have to have the mother bring a pot of tea from the kitchen to the living room and serve it to the others, how do I, on a practical level, get everyone into the frame? Any decisions I made about the camera angles or movement came out of necessity, versus any sort of stylistic choice.” IfsMadeMovingMotherChoicesActorsSpaceDecisionLevelsRoomsNumbersExampleMovementCamerasPracticalsTeaKitchenConsiderationPotAngleVersusLiving RoomLarge NumbersSmall SpacesCamera Angles Author:Hirokazu Koreeda
“In the ruling, Justice Roberts, who wrote the decision, referred to cell phones as not just phones but, quote, "cameras, video players, rolodexes, calendars, tape recorders, libraries, and diaries," unquote. Plus, he went on, best friends, lovers.” JusticeDecisionPlayerLoversCamerasLibraryPhonesVideoCellsPlusTapeRulingDiariesCell PhoneCalendarsRecorders Author:Peter Sagal
“It was a scary decision to let cameras into my life, but if I was going to do it, I just wanted to be really honest and kind of introduce myself as an adult. I think the world met me as a young girl, and they still associate me with who I was when I was 13, they still don't understand how over the last eight years what has happened and who I've become.” IfsThinkingWorldYearsKindStillsWantedLastsYoungGirlDecisionHappenedHonestMetsAdultsCamerasScaryEightIntroducingAssociates Author:Jamie Lynn Spears
“Women don't make the decisions in the media. Even if you see women on camera, they have to answer to the person upstairs, which is mostly men. Women only hold 3% of the decision-making offices in the media.” IfsMenPersonsDecisionAnswersMediaOfficeCamerasDecision MakingMen WomenUpstairs Author:Jane Fonda
“The way I generally work is that I do try to leave as many decisions as I possibly can to the day of, because it feels like that's where you're most in tune to what's going on. I sort of feel like my job is to be a conduit to opportunities, to maximize the creativity of the day itself - because that's when the cameras are running. That's the important thing to me.” WayFeelsTryingImportantRunningJobsOpportunityDecisionCreativityCamerasImportant ThingsTunes Author:David Mackenzie
“I'm never certain of a performance - my own or the other actors' - or the script or anything... But to me it seems there's only one place in the world the camera can be, and the decision usually comes immediately.” WorldSeemsCertainActorsMy OwnDecisionPerformancesCamerasScriptsPlaces In The World Book:This is Orson Welles Source: This is Orson Welles