Best Cinematography Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Most of the movies are working like, 'Information, cut, information, cut, information, cut' and for them the information is just the story. For me, a lot of things [are] information - I try to involve, to the movie, the time, the space, and a lot of other things - which is a part of our life but not connecting directly to the story-telling. And I'm working on the same way - 'information, cut, information, cut,' but for me the information is not only the story.”

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Author:Béla Tarr

“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive.”

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Author:Stanley Kubrick

“Technical achievement does not necessarily equate with artistic accomplishment.”

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Book:The Art of Adaptation in Film and Video Games

Source: The Art of Adaptation in Film and Video Games

“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Use filmmaking to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Cinema is a very difficult and serious art, it requires sacrificing of yourself. You should belong to it, it shouldn't belong to you. Cinema uses your life, not vice versa.”

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Author:Andrei Tarkovsky

“Whatever genre you deem suitable for your taste – romance, comedy, action, mystery, sci-fi or anything else, make sure it has the plain everyday human kindness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction.”

“Healthy entertainment is a beautiful blend of stimuli that can connect with the viewer at a sentimental level, then sow the seeds of a certain idea or feed the mind with inspiration and courage. In short, healthy entertainment does not evoke raw emotions in the mind of a viewer only to make them wreak havoc, rather it guides those emotions in a healthy direction. This leads to not only an entertained viewer, but also an inspired soul. And that should be the purpose of film-making, and indeed the entire entertainment industry, rather than feeding the general population with garbage.”

“A Film has the potential to kindle such a spark of inspiration in an individual that it can alter the course of human progress.”

“Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Use filmmaking for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some drowsy minds. Wake the whole world up with your movies. It has been sleeping for long. Its eternal sleep has become its darkest nemesis. Now is the time to wake it up.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Give people films, they will forget after a few weeks, but give people ideas, they will assimilate them into their consciousness.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Filmmaking has the power to fortify the feeble, unify the divided, raise the abandoned and inspire the ignorant.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Take the clapper and become the alarm that the world so desperately needs.”

Source: The Film Testament

“The art of filmmaking is the most influential form of art that has ever existed throughout the history of human artistic endeavors.”

Source: The Film Testament

“A movie is not a movie, it is a potential nuclear furnace of inspiration, courage and conscience.”

Source: The Film Testament

“Make movies my friend – make nice, inspiring and bold movies that will penetrate the darkest corners of the human mind and illuminate the soul.”

Source: The Film Testament

“A sex worker deserves a billion times more respect, than the mystical fraudsters of the society, such as astrologers, psychics and tarot card readers.”

“Soy de los que piensan que lo que te gusta tiene que ser lo que te gusta de verdad, y no lo que te gusta por prescripción crítica.”

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Book:The Best? Devaneos sobre la mejor película de la Historia del Cine

Source: The Best? Devaneos sobre la mejor película de la Historia del Cine

“No olvidemos que el "cine de autor" es como el colesterol hay uno malo y otro soportable, igual que la mayor parte del corpus de la "canción protesta".”

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Book:The Best? Devaneos sobre la mejor película de la Historia del Cine

Source: The Best? Devaneos sobre la mejor película de la Historia del Cine

“Sir Alfred Hitchcock decía que el cine era la vida sin sus partes aburridas. Los nuevos creadores opinaban todo lo contrario: para ellos el cine era la parte aburrida de nuestra existencia.”

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Book:The Best? Devaneos sobre la mejor película de la Historia del Cine

Source: The Best? Devaneos sobre la mejor película de la Historia del Cine

“Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.”

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Author:Jean-Luc Godard

“If TV seems improved, I think it's been enhanced by violence and sex permissible on cable, as well as better cinematography, but in the end it's really only soap operas like your grandmother's afternoon "stories" and that's all it wants to be or has to be.”

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Author:William Monahan

“I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.”

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Author:Seamus McGarvey

“I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy. Is intent, is the balance between the familiar and the dream, it is being subjective and objective, it is being engaged and yet standing back and noticing something that perhaps other people didn’t notice before, or celebrating something that you feel is beautiful or valid, or true or engaging in some way.”

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Author:Christopher Doyle

“What I found interesting writing a screenplay as opposed to writing a novel is not the obvious thing, which is having to pare everything down and find the kind of essence, the skeleton if you like, which can then be fleshed out by performance and cinematography.”

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Author:Salman Rushdie

“Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.”

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Author:Conrad Hall

“I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of all the arts combined. Students are always asking me for advice, and I tell them that they have to be enthusiastic, because it's hard work. The only way to enjoy it is to be totally immersed. If you don't get involved on that level, it could be a very miserable job. I only have one regret about my career: I'm sorry that we are not making silent movies any more. That is the purest art form I can imagine.”

“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.”

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Author:Shane Carruth

“I think the point of cinematography, of what we do, is intimacy.”

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Author:Christopher Doyle

“Cinematography was incredibly foreign to me, so I read as much as I could about it. Once I figured out that it was just photography with a set shutter speed, I got some slide film and I just went about storyboarding the script and taking snapshots. I took a ton of time doing it just to make sure I knew exactly what I was doing. By the end of it I knew what the film was going to look like - my exposure and the composition and everything. I wasn't scared of cinematography anymore.”

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Author:Shane Carruth

“I wanted to transfer to an art school, and ended up going to the University of Southern California. They had a cinematography school, and I said "Well, that's sort of like photography, maybe that will be interesting." And once I started in that department, I found what it was that I loved and was good at.”

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Author:George Lucas

“The art of moviemaking seems to get thrown away. The cinematography is gone, and the look of everything becomes of little importance. You lose the memorable images; everything looks like it's been shot at night with a security camera.”

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Author:Rob Zombie

“I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.”

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Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“The audience I'm targeting doesn't care about the language spoken in the films they watch. They're interested in more important things like story, performance, cinematography etc.”

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Author:Chika Anadu

“I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.”

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Author:Roger Deakins

“I like the powerful story, the excellent performances the beautiful cinematography and the vision of the "The Piano".”

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Author:Mabel Cheung

“The cinematography was of course incredibly important to me because I graduated as a cinematographer.”

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Author:Pirjo Honkasalo

“Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.”

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Book:Notes on the Cinematograph

Source: Notes on the Cinematograph

“I had a love for photography, which of course rolled into cinematography.”

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Author:Scoot McNairy

“Not all pictures but some pictures you're like, "Wow, I wish I could be there" or you feel like you are there. I don't know what it is about cinematography.”

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Author:Scoot McNairy

“We've tried to use some visual motifs [in Beauty and the Beast]. As far as the cinematography and the lensing and all that, we are presenting a different view into that world. It's a little sleeker, but we're keeping the gothic feel underneath it.”

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Author:Brian Wayne Peterson

“Eventually, I think cinematography for every culture is a way to explore different stories, different ways of also delivering a story.”

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Author:Violante Placido

“I'm not sure that I could give notes to someone that I revere. That's a general challenge of directing, giving notes to someone you revere. The other big contribution to this, which most people I show footage to take note of is Mauro Fiore's cinematography is unbelievable.”

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Author:Shawn Anthony Levy

“And the best films feel like a fist punching you in the solar plexus and all elements of the filmmaking process - the acting, the design, the cinematography, the music, is all working to one end.”

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Author:Ethan Hawke

“I think as he gets older, Quentin [Tarantino] is growing more and more into his directorial side, but the writer in him won't stop the pen. I don't think he deserved a directing nod. Like I said, it's beautifully shot - it's cinematography, obviously, deserves a nomination - but he's not the camera man.”

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Author:Bun B

“The director Denis [Villeneuve] is actually an actor (he's from Sons of Anarchy and he's a great character actor) and he's also a screenwriter (he wrote What Lies Beneath). It blows my mind to see when people from one sector move to another and excel. I think Sicario was one of the best directed and written films. It did get [a nomination for best] cinematography, though.”

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Author:Bun B

“I'm so aware when you make a film, there are so many elements to get right. So many people with such important jobs. You know, it's terrible. I walk away from a film going, "The cinematography was great, wasn't it? But the music wasn't so good. The casting wasn't great."”

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Author:Stuart A. Staples

“The cinematography is as much involved with the physicality of the scene, so a lot of our shots are hand-held. I felt the cinematographer needed to be the fourth-character with the same drive as the actors”

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Author:J. Robert Spencer

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