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“David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense.”

“It's funny shooting movies because you get to see clubs during daylight hours, which no one should ever see - it's not pretty; there's a reason the lighting is dim in there.”

Should Reason Hours Clubs Shooting Lighting Daylight Not Pretty

Author:Gillian Jacobs

“Put every light you have on a dimmer. Because after a certain age, we can play with the lighting and set it on how you look best on it. Its cheaper than plastic surgery.”

Looks Play Light Age Certain Plastic Surgery Lighting Cheaper Plastic Surgery

Author:Bryan Batt

“Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.”

Beautiful Space Deals Emotion Lighting Choreography Space Time Beautiful Images

Author:Benjamin Millepied

“I think people underestimate the importance of lighting - layers of lighting, not just one light. I do a lighting seminar where I take a $300-a-yard fabric and a $3-a-yard fabric. I show what lighting can do to either one.”

People Thinking Shows Light Can Do Importance Just One Layers Fabric Yards Underestimate Lighting Seminars

Author:Candice Olson

“Most people went to dance shows, but it was basically a table and a DJ playing and not really a spectacular thing. I brought the whole production with the effects - the best sound, the best lighting to blow the fans away.”

People Whole Shows Sound Fans Effects Tables Blow Productions Spectacular Lighting Djs

Author:Tiesto

“I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.”

I Can Lamps Lighting Overhead

Author:Kate Spade

“The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.”

Thinking Ideas Bigs Talking Band Sitting No Idea Candle Vans Lighting Sitting Around Synergy Van Halen Gnarly Scumbags

Author:Taylor Hawkins

“Well,the fun part of being a writer is that it's like making a wonderful film, with no limit on my budget. I can design the sets, the costume, the lightings, I write the script, and then I get to perform all the roles as I step into each character's skin, zip up, and adopt that point of view. So, to me, they are all compelling and fascinating.”

Writing Wells I Can Character Film Fun Views Steps Roles Wonderful Design Limits Skins Scripts Point Of View Budgets Fascinating Compelling Costumes Lighting Zips

Author:Robin Hobb

“If there was a little room somewhere in the British Museum that contained only about twenty exhibits and good lighting, easy chairs, and a notice imploring you to smoke, I believe I should become a museum man.”

Ifs Men Should Believe Littles I Believe Easy Rooms Twenties British Smoke Chairs Museums Lighting Exhibits British Museum Good Lighting

Author:J. B. Priestley

“Lighting affects everything light falls upon. How you see what you see, how you feel about it, and how you hear what you are hearing. Replace the 'a' with an 'e' and you get lighting effects!”

Feels Light Fall Effects Hearing Lighting How You Feel

Author:Jean Rosenthal

“I like to think of myself as some of the Scotch tape that holds things together - I'm very handy to have around. But all that actors really need is a bare stage. Lighting is just one of the luxuries of the theater.”

Thinking Needs Together Actors Stage Theater Luxury Just One Tape Lighting Handy Scotch Scotch Tape

Author:Jean Rosenthal

“The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable.”

Can Do Successful Brilliant Designer Lighting

Author:Jean Rosenthal

“Ladies and gentlemen, if some of the leading artists in a civilization see a man urinating in another man's mouth and see composition and lighting and do not see their civilization being pissed upon, we are in trouble.”

Ifs Men Christian Artist Religious Trouble Civilization Mouths Gentleman Composition Another Man Lighting Ladies And Gentlemen

Author:Dennis Prager

“A candle is a living, flickering light. It can easily be blown out. As we watch a candle burn we see the wax diminish. It melts away - a symbol for life. [...] Candles have long been central to worship. By lighting them we announce that we are entering into a different sense of time. Not the usual ticktock time of daily living, but sacred time, a timeless time.”

Life Long Book Different Light Time Watches Worship Sacred Symbols Usual Candle Timeless Entering Diminish Lighting Daily Living Flickering Light

Author:Gunilla Brodde Norris

“It takes time and devotion to learn the language of color and lighting in the garden. Your tastes are sure to change over time, reflecting your inner evolution. Seeing the garden as a canvas for your celebration of Nature's palette is a wonderful expression of the soul's love of beauty and artistry. Your own inner intuition, however, is often your best teacher, but don't forget that Mother Nature will always have a few surprises up Her sleeve as well.”

“I'm going to insult a whole industry here, but it seems like TV is for people who can't do film. I'm not talking about actresses; I'm talking about lighting people. Lighting on TV is just so... it's sinful, it really is.”

People Whole Seems Film Talking Tvs Industry Actresses Insult Lighting Comeback Not Talking

Author:Kevyn Aucoin

“Enticing hope is like lighting candle in the dark room”

Light Hope Dark Rooms Candle Lighting Dark Room Enticing

Author:Aftab Alam

“Lighting a fire UNDER someone will never be as effective as Lighting a fire WITHIN someone.”

Fire Lighting Fire Within Lighting A Fire

Author:Bob Teague

“I raised my three teens with love, perseverance, tenacity, sweat, tears, prayers, lighting candles, and the list could go on.”

Three Prayer Tears Goes On Raised Perseverance Lists Sweat Candle Teens Tenacity Lighting Perseverance In Love

Author:Ana Monnar

“You have to create different things, either through lighting or changing the format of the songs and how you're going to sing them, and even sometimes props.”

Different Sometimes Song Different Things Lighting Format Props

Author:Mary J. Blige

“Nowadays, when you make movies, you don’t need any lights at all. You have to remember, back in the day, the film stocks that they had were very, very insensitive and they would have these humongous lights and lighting was everything, so everyone looked good. Nowadays with digital film where you don’t need any light at all, you could shoot in the [bleep] dark. It makes people not look so good and it makes aging on film much, much harder.”

People Needs Looks Light Remember Film Dark Harder Aging Digital Lighting Insensitive Back In The Day

Author:Jamie Lee Curtis

“I wanted to know why people follow rules blindly, or why girls had to act a certain way and boys didn't. Why could boys ask girls out and girls not ask guys out? Why did girls have to shave their legs and guys didn't? Why did society, like, set everything up the way they did? My whole adolescence was full of unanswered whys. Because they never got answered, I just kept lighting fires everywhere - metaphorically speaking.”

People Knows Way Whole Wanted Guy Certain Girl Asks Boys Fire Legs Adolescence Lighting Unanswered Lighting A Fire Ask A Girl

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Men accept compliments much better than women do. Example: "Mitch, you look great." Mitch: "Thanks." On the other side: "Ruth, you look great." Ruth: "I do? Must be the lighting."”

Men Looks Humor Funny Sides Accepting Example Thanks Compliment Lighting Ruth

Author:Rita Rudner

“There is message to the community that a non-governmental process is underway to bring about social change, it's a public one, and people like Margaret Thatcher, George Bush, and Mikhail Gorbachev are throwing their weight behind it. In a world where there's a lot of cynicism and despair, this has a candle-lighting effect.”

People World Social Process Community Behinds Effects Despair Messages Weight Throwing Candle Cynicism Social Change Lighting Gorbachev

Author:Ram Dass

“I always look for nature or natural lighting within buildings and within rooms that has been done by somebody else to suit their needs. I look at it very closely as a photographic thing, then enhance it.”

Needs Looks Has Beens Done Natural Rooms Building Suits Lighting

Author:Wolfgang Petersen

“I've often called the lighting for the stage the "music for the eye", because it has the same way of making an atmosphere, making a landscape, changing fluidly from one place to another without seeming effort.”

Way Eye Effort Stage Landscape Atmosphere Lighting Seeming

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“I feel also that the rhythm of a production is made by the lighting. If it feels like it's too long and too slow, it may well be because the light is changing in a way that makes the audience feel that way. Definitely I feel that light and music are very closely related.”

Ifs Way Feels Wells May Long Made Light Audience Productions Rhythm Related Lighting

Author:Jennifer Tipton

“In a period piece, particularly a fantasy, the lighting is your own choice, the lenses are your own choice. It's really a great thing for a cinematographer to do. Everything is open for you. You can even be more creative and you can use more shadows than usual.”

Use Choices Fantasy Creative Pieces Periods Shadow Great Things Usual Lenses Lighting Cinematographers

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

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

Use Light Dark Shadow Cinema Lighting Cinematography Cameraman

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.”

Way Looks Mean Different Real Sometimes Stories Normal Real Life Different Ways Contrast Lighting

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in available light.”

Ifs Trying Different Stories Light Approach Shots Available Lighting Different Approach

Author:Vilmos Zsigmond

“For interiors, if you have a basic sofa, you can add fun throw pillows, and cool lighting to make the space more interesting. In fashion, you make a little black dress really amazing with jewelry, shoes and an incredible bag. If you have those clean, basic, pieces you can really mix things up with the accessories and make the space, or the outfit, uniquely your own.”

Ifs Littles Fun Black Space Interesting Pieces Fashion Dresses Add Clean Incredibles Shoes Bags Interiors Pillow Jewelry Lighting Accessories Sofas Really Amazing

Author:Jeremiah Brent

“I take bits and pieces from every director. I'd say Sylvain [White] and Nimrod [Antal]. They were more about teaching me lens sizes and depth of field and how to move the camera and lighting. I do want to direct and I didn't go to film school, so having a director that are very much hands on that way and looking to let me learn, that is a key factor.”

Way Want Hands School Film Moving Bits White Pieces Teaching Fields Keys Directors Direct Let Me Cameras Depth Size Factors Lenses Lighting Film School Bits And Pieces Depth Of Field

Author:Columbus Short

“There is not the slightest question but that the God of the Old Testament is a jealous, vengeful God, inflicting not only on the sinful pagans but even on his Chosen People fire, lighting, hideous plagues and diseases, brimstone, and other curses.”

People Religion Fire Disease Chosen Curse Jealous Testament Plague Lighting Pagan Old Testament Hideous Vengeful

Book:Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

Source: Steve Allen on the Bible, Religion, & Morality

“A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.”

Heart May Littles Ends Path Thousand Corners Confession Lighting

Author:Martha Beck

“In opera, everyone's watching from a fixed viewpoint, and that really challenges you. Lighting, the sets, stage groupings, the music-but doesn't relate too much to film.”

Film Challenges Too Much Stage Relate Fixed Opera Lighting Viewpoints

Author:Bruce Beresford

“I get fed up with all this nonsense of ringing people up and lighting cigarettes and answering the doorbell that passes for action in so many modern plays.”

People Writing Play Action Modern Nonsense Feds Cigarette Lighting Fed Up

Book:Conversations with Graham Greene

Source: Conversations with Graham Greene

“If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or the lighting etc. but it really all depends on the project. Some films benefit from their spontaneity.”

Ifs May Hands Film Depends Directors Benefits Projects Creating Shots Etc More Time Scratches Spontaneity Lighting Finesse

Author:Roger Deakins

“I don't know how else to tell the story except to utilise that vocabulary: the rain, the darkness, the mansions, the framing, etc, the lighting and that sort of thing.”

Knows Stories Darkness Know How Rain Etc Vocabulary Lighting Mansions Framing

Author:Martin Scorsese

“Woody makes a movie as if he were lighting 10,000 safety matches to illuminate a city. Each one is a little epiphany: topical, ethnic, or political.”

Ifs Littles Political Actors Cities Safety Movie Lighting Epiphany Woody

Author:Gene Wilder

“The elegance of staying with a moment, without needing to stop and change all the lighting, made [the alternative] seem lazy and indulgent.”

Made Moments Seems Alternatives Lazy Staying Elegance Lighting

Author:Edward Norton

“I think if you don't stop an actor every two minutes, changing the position of the camera and the lighting, there is going to be a flow of energy.”

Ifs Thinking Two Actors Energy Minutes Position Flow Cameras Lighting

Author:Cristian Mungiu

“Lighting that torch in Atlanta didn't make me nervous. Standing up to the government - that made me nervous.”

Made Government Standing Nervous Lighting Torches Atlanta

Author:Muhammad Ali

“You know, whenever you're shooting a film there's different obstacles and challenges, whether it be from the makeup artist getting fired that you liked or whatever - the one that did the makeup the way you wanted. There's always stuff that changed, like the DP leaving the set, and there's a new guy in there, and the way he does lighting isn't the same as the last guy.”

Knows Way Doe Different Wanted Lasts Film Artist Guy Stuff Challenges Changed Leaving Obstacles Shooting Makeup Lighting Makeup Artist Obstacles And Challenges Getting Fired

Author:Ja Rule

“I love lighting Shabbat candles at the onset of Shabbat. It helps me create a strong and firm demarcation of time.”

Helping Strong Firm Help Me Candle Lighting

Author:Erica Brown

“Photoshop is an art, and you can do a lot with it. Change the atmosphere through different lighting and make the pictures look more interesting.”

Looks Art Different Can Do Interesting Atmosphere Lighting Photoshop

Author:Crystal Renn

“Designing a tour is a daily thing. I work on it every day for several months. I’m involved with every department, from lighting, sound, music direction, the visual direction. The set list is something I create myself and that’s the root of everything”

Sound Design Months Involved Roots Lists Visuals Department Lighting

Author:Shania Twain

“When I was creative director [at Estée Lauder], I was always being asked about my beauty must-haves. From there I had this fun idea to create a line of what was in my makeup bag. But I also love accessories, and people associate me with home, family, and beauty. As a girl, my favorite toy was my dollhouse; if I could still play with it now, I would! I used to love a well-arranged room: the furniture, the fabric, the lighting.”

“Revealing the truth is like lighting a match, it can bring light or it can set your world on fire.”

World Light Fire Truth Is Revealing Lighting

Author:Wiz Khalifa

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