“To me, achieving tone, achieving consistency, is exactly the job of a director. It is to be the fusing, the nexus of a whole bunch of people contributing to the complex life of a movie. There are actors, there's a cinematographer, there're costume people, set people, there are all these things, and you somehow have to be the person in the middle of it who is making it all synchronize into the same magic bubble.” PeoplePersonsWholeJobsActorsMagicMiddleAchieveDirectorsComplexesBunchToneBubblesConsistencyCostumesContributingCinematographersNexus Author:Edward Norton
“An action choreographer is kind of like a dance choreographer. You choreograph the moves and you let the director, cinematographer take into positioning their cameras.” KindActionMovingDirectorsCamerasChoreographersCinematographers Author:Donnie Yen
“That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.” PeopleHomeLife IsActorsWonderfulDirectorsExcellentComing HomeGreat ExperiencesCinematographers Author:Deborah Kara Unger
“I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. I'm aware of that. And my career has been given to me by the people I've worked with, no question. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.” PeopleWayLooksHas BeensActorsOpportunityGivenCareersLuckyDirectorsMouthsHorseGratefulCinematographers Author:Meryl Streep
“As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.” NeedsFilmAnswersDirectorsVisualsCooperationGreat FilmGood DirectorsCinematographers Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“In comics, the writer is also the director in a certain way. So if this were a film, you wouldn't tell the cinematographer to make a good fight scene while you go and get a cup of coffee.” IfsWayFilmCertainFightingSceneDirectorsCoffeeCupsCoffee CupGood FightCinematographers Author:Max Bemis
“Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew” RealFilmFrontsTelevisionDirectorsFemaleMalesSexismPersistCrewFilm And TelevisionCinematographers Author:Liz W. Garcia
“I'm completely surrounded, not only my father, but also my three brothers, and Sergio, my husband, all four of them work in film. Some are writers, or directors, or cinematographers, all of them. I'm surrounded by men that make films, so much that at some point I felt there was no more room in the family for another filmmaker.For many years I was only working as novelist or writing screenplays for others to direct.” MenWritingYearsFilmThreeFatherFeltRoomsFourBrotherDirectorsHusbandDirectNovelistsFilmmakerMy HusbandScreenplaysCinematographersThree Brothers Author:Lucia Puenzo
“We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.” ArtDirectorsIdealsConventionalConformSpecificsCinematographersArt Director Author:Damian Loeb
“I wanted to be in film. I wanted to be a film student, possibly be a director or cinematographer, not an actor. That was my goal. I didn't believe I had the physical beauty that I'd seen projected and advertised in movies, in theater. It just wasn't for me.” BelieveWantedFilmActorsGoalStudentsDirectorsTheaterPhysical BeautyCinematographersFilm Students Author:Pam Grier
“I'm the most experienced cinematographer in this medium, so there's no point in having that extra conversation in the middle of the loop. You're making the film in relation to what's happening now, and you can't really affect what's happening now. It's not like you're in control of anything in front of the camera. If you're calling yourself the director and you're not the cinematographer, I think you're kidding yourself.” IfsThinkingFilmMiddleFrontsLike YouCallingDirectorsConversationHappeningsRelationCamerasMediumsExtrasNo PointLoopsCinematographersKidding Yourself Author:David Douglas
“It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good.” WorldBookActorsJesusDealsMillionsDirectorsDollarsVery GoodComicComic BookCinematographers Author:James Coburn
“It's because you have no power. You give them all the material and the cinematographer, the director, the editor, boy what they can choose... You better hope they like you because they can slice and dice and make you look like a damn fool when your face and body are up there on a 30-foot screen.” GivingLooksBodyFacesBoysFeetMaterialsLike YouFoolDirectorsScreensDamnYour FaceEditorsDiceCinematographers Author:William Mapother
“I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.” ThinkingMadeProgressDirectorsContraryCinematographyCinematographers Author:Maryse Alberti