“I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.” FirstsFilmEffectsCameras Author:Sam Raimi
“Usually you talk about directors in terms of the way they choose camera lenses or a kind of light to create a certain effect. But to me the most valuable commodity for a movie to create is a feeling of life, and that's what A Hard Day's Night has in spades.” WayKindHardFeelingsLightNightCertainTermEffectsDirectorsCamerasValuableCommodityLensesSpadesHard DaysCamera Lenses Author:Michael Patrick Jann
“Growing up, my sisters and I would always talk stories. One of my frustrations was I didn't know anything about cameras. I didn't know how to make a film and I obviously didn't have a special effects budget. I was a kid. So I was learning to draw to get down the stuff that was in my head, that I couldn't afford to actually do.” KnowsStoriesKidsFilmStuffKnow HowGrowing UpGrowingSpecialEffectsDrawsCamerasBudgetsFrustrationMy SisterSpecial Effects Author:Jennifer Yuh Nelson
“How difficult it is to learn not to see like cameras, which has had such an effect on us. The camera sees everything at once. We don't.” DifficultEffectsCameras Author:David Hockney
“(1) The more thoroughly a photographer explores his subject with the camera (i.e., the more pictures he makes), the more he sees and the better his chance of getting good results. (2) Even slight changes in subject approach can make significant differences in the effect of the picture.” DifferencesChanceResultsSubjectsEffectsApproachCamerasPhotographerSignificant Author:Andreas Feininger
“The best visual effects are when you shoot as much of what you can in camera. And it's really good for the actor's performance to have something real.” RealActorsEffectsPerformancesCamerasVisualsSomething RealVisual Effects Author:Rob Letterman
“If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.” IfsHumansPersonsHandsFallSpaceStreetsEffectsEventsFiguresBuildingReadyWalkingHappeningsCamerasPhotographFallenThemeLoadedPhotojournalism Author:Leonard Nimoy
“The image isn't just created with the camera. That's just part one. The editor gets an imprint. The colorist does something to it. Visual effects does something to it. It's not just what you capture that people are going to see. The image gets made in many ways. In production and then in post.” PeopleWayDoeMadeEffectsCamerasProductionsPostsVisualsEditorsCaptureVisual Effects Author:Christopher Kenneally
“The g-forces increased and I wasn't able to continue to hold the camera against the window, so I had to lay it back against my chest, but still continued to photograph the re-entry until there was no more unusual visual effects of the energy in the atmosphere. And it was very comforting to understand that the people in Houston, the controllers, had very high confidence that we were on the right path.” PeopleStillsAbleEnergyForcePathEffectsWindowCamerasLaysPhotographAtmosphereVisualsChestsUnusualComfortingEntryRight PathHoustonControllersVisual EffectsRe EntryG Force Author:Buzz Aldrin
“I don't like to put too much effort into things. I find that once you get involved with special effects it is no longer about what is happening in front of the camera and I really want to concentrate on what is happening in front of the camera, like the man apparently peeing on the surface of the screen.” MenWantEffortToo MuchSpecialEffectsFrontsHe ManInvolvedHappeningsCamerasSurfaceScreensGet InvolvedSpecial Effects Author:Steve McQueen
“I will never lose anything that an audience will miss.I turned things that were scripted as effects into in-camera stuff, which is sexier.” StuffLosesAudienceEffectsMissingCameras Author:Adam Shankman
“There was a lot of stuff [in Rock of Ages] that had effects in it and I thought it was too smooth. I thought it would be sexier if it were in-camera cuts. So I did that.” IfsWould BeAgeStuffCuttingEffectsRocksCamerasSmooth Author:Adam Shankman
“It's hard work. It's really hard work, but it's really interesting. We have this camera, I think it's called a SimulCam, and when you play it back, you can see the giant in the scene you just shot. It's incredible. You're reacting to a tennis ball that's way up there, then when you watch it, it's this huge giant's face on it. Wow. That's cool. I just can't wait to see it when it's all edited together and the special effects are all crystal clear. It's going to be, hopefully, amazing.” ThinkingWayHardPlayTogetherFacesWaitingInterestingWatchesClearSpecialEffectsHard WorkHugeSceneShotsBallsCamerasIncrediblesHopefullyGiantsTennisWorking ItWowCrystalsReally InterestingReactingSpecial EffectsEditedTennis Balls Author:Eleanor Tomlinson
“Our camera does not produce pretty pictures, but exact duplications that, through our renunciation of photographic effects, turn out to be relatively objective. The photo can optically replace its object to a certain degree. This takes on special meaning if the object cannot be preserved.” IfsDoeCertainTurnsSpecialEffectsObjectsProduceDegreesCamerasObjectivesRenunciationDuplicationPretty Picture Author:Bernd Becher
“There are women in makeup and hair and wardrobe, but not in camera, not in sound, you know, and not in special effects. It's all men.” KnowsMenSoundSpecialEffectsHairCamerasMakeupWardrobeSpecial Effects Author:Carrie Fisher
“The film [ Wyatt Earp and the Holy Grail] was shot on a KODAK Zi8 camera as well as on multiple camera phones. It was processed using the effects of FINAL CUT X and then edited in FINAL CUT 7.” WellsFilmCuttingEffectsHolyShotsCamerasFinalsPhonesMultipleEditedHoly GrailKodak Author:Evan Jacobs
“In Hong Kong, particularly, we craft this art for decades. The action choreographer actually is the action director. He takes over and he choreographs with - by himself or with his team, and place the camera where he feels cinematic effect to bring out that choreography.” FeelsArtActionTeamEffectsDirectorsCamerasDecadesCraftsChoreographyHong KongCinematicChoreographers Author:Donnie Yen
“I'm sometimes asked why it is that for 30 years we seem to have trouble in the United States enforcing the rules against illegal immigration, and I'll tell you what the answer is. The answer is that when the television cameras turn off and the spotlight moves to something else, there are a host of interest groups and advocacy groups who work very, very hard to make it difficult to enforce these rules. I'm not commenting adversely on their motivation, but I can tell you the effect of all of this is to wear down the ability of an agency to enforce the law.” YearsI CanSometimesHardStatesSeemsMovingLawMotivationTurnsDifficultInterestAbilityAnswersUnitedUnited StatesTroubleGroupsEffectsTelevisionCamerasImmigrationAgencyIllegalHostSpotlightTurn OffAdvocacyIllegal ImmigrationInterest Groups Author:Michael Chertoff
“I try to express in my films things that no other art can approach. In my monster films for example, I use special effects in the same way one would use a special film stock, a special camera, and so on. Monster films permit me to use all of these elements at the same time. They are the most visual kind of film.” WayTryingKindArtUseFilmSpecialEffectsExampleElementsApproachCamerasMonstersVisualsPermitSpecial Effects Author:Ishiro Honda