“For example, Michael Mann's film Collateral - there is certain kinds of stories that lend themselves to digital photography. Some things are very raw stories that digital photography kind of lends itself to.” KindStoriesFilmCertainExamplePhotographyDigitalCollateralDigital Photography Author:Matthew Modine
“If you take 2001: A Space Odyssey as an example of somebody who creates a new language in film by what he was able to accomplish with art direction, photography, lighting, etc., it is still a gold standard for science fiction.” IfsArtStillsAbleFilmLanguageSpaceFictionExamplePhotographyStandardsGoldScience FictionAccomplishEtcLightingOdysseyGold StandardSpace Odyssey2001 A Space OdysseyArt Direction Author:Matthew Modine
“All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.” IdeasFilmSubjectsPhotography Author:Lauren Greenfield
“The '60s in London obviously brought about the explosion of music, the Beatles especially, and then the Rolling Stones and other forms of music, and then fashion and photography and films - kitchen-sink dramas we called them at that time, which was our nouvelle vague in Britain, films that talk about real life.” RealFilmFormFashionDramaPhotographyStonesLondonReal LifeKitchenBritainRollingVagueExplosionsRolling StonesKitchen SinksPhotography And Film Author:Charlotte Rampling
“With chemical film, it was possible to alter photographs, but you had to be an expert. That's not true any more. The LA Times fired a photographer at the beginning of the Iraq War for editing two shots together. Photography is crumbling. Certainly it is for the newspapers a bit now, isn't it? There will be painting again, absolutely!” TwoWarTogetherFilmBitsPaintingPhotographyShotsPhotographerPhotographIraqNewspapersExpertsChemicalsEditingIraq WarCrumbling Author:David Hockney
“I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school.” ArtStillsSchoolFilmCoursesPhotographyHigh SchoolEditingUscArt Direction Author:Ray Harryhausen
“I did all the stuff that people do - film, performance, photography, pictures and words, words and pictures. In retrospect, I was trying to find some way to put things - meaning images and forms - together that highlighted some idea of what was underneath the surface of an image, what determined how something was seen.” PeopleWayTryingIdeasTogetherFilmFormStuffPhotographyPerformancesDeterminedSurfaceRetrospectPictures And Words Author:David Salle
“Then in college, besides economics, I also majored in studio art and got involved in photography and making short films and acting. But I didn't know you could make a living that way.” KnowsWayArtFilmActingCollegeInvolvedPhotographyEconomicsStudiosShort Films Author:Brit Marling
“Fifty years after we undertook to make the first synthetic polarizers we find them the essential layer in digital liquid-crystal. And thirty four years after we undertook to make the first instant camera and film, our kind of photography has become ubiquitous.” YearsFirstsKindFilmFourEssentialsPhotographyCamerasInstantThirtyFiftyDigitalFour YearsLayersCrystalsLiquidSynthetic Author:Edwin Land
“I don't think I treat my film work as an extension of my photography. There are two different sets of rules there.” ThinkingTwoDifferentFilmPhotographyTreatsExtensions Author:Anton Corbijn
“We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.” WorldYearsMayTwoDifferentEyeFilmPhotographyHundredDecades Author:Laszlo Moholy-Nagy
“Art films aren't necessarily photography. It's feeling. If we can capture a feeling of a people, of a way of life, then we made a good picture.” PeopleIfsWayArtMadeFeelingsFilmPhotographyCaptureArt Films Author:John Cassavetes
“I find that in the process of making a film you're constantly discovering things that you never even imagined would work at the beginning. Actors come into the film and do things you never even imagined. Production designers come in, the director of photography lights it in a way that you never imagined. So, it's always evolving, always exciting.” WayLightFilmActorsProcessDirectorsPhotographyExcitingProductionsEvolveDesignerDiscoveringDiscovering Things Author:Peter Jackson
“My enthusiasm for joining the New York Film Academy is predicated on my personal explorations into video as well as a sense of responsibility to share my extended experience of photography with committed students in both mediums.” WellsFilmResponsibilityShareNew YorkStudentsPhotographyCommittedVideoMediumsEnthusiasmExplorationAcademyJoiningSense Of Responsibility Author:Ralph Gibson
“That's the way I learned photography: You make your picture in the camera. Now, so much is made in the computer. ... I'm not anti-digital, I just think, for me, film works better.” ThinkingWayMadeFilmComputerPhotographyCamerasDigital Author:Mary Ellen Mark
“Not only do we end up with a vivid, surprising and soulful sense of one artist and his work, but Leigh also offers us a commanding view of a city, London, and country at the dawn of the modern age and of a man being overawed and overtaken by new technologies such as photography and the railways. As ever with Leigh, 'Mr Turner' addresses the big questions with small moments. It's an extraordinary film, all at once strange, entertaining, thoughtful and exciting.” MenEndsCountryMomentsBigsAgeFilmArtistViewsCitiesTechnologyModernStrangeOffersPhotographyExcitingExtraordinaryLondonDawnThoughtfulAddressesSurprisingEntertainingVividNew TechnologyRailwaySoulfulBig QuestionsTurnerModern AgeSmall Moments Author:Dave Calhoun
“A reader, encountering a sentence about a barking dog, would have to dwell on why that choice was made at that moment. Everything in a novel is explicitly chosen, whereas some of what a film captures feels incidental, according to the vagaries of photography and sound recording.” FeelsMadeMomentsFilmChoicesSoundNovelDogReaderPhotographySentencesChosenThat MomentCaptureBarking Dogs Author:Jonathan Lethem
“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.” LooksEndsFilmPhotographyScriptsScaredSpeedCompositionExposureSlidesSnapshotsShuttersCinematographyStoryboarding Author:Shane Carruth
“I wanted to be a car mechanic and I wanted to race cars and the idea of trying to make something out of my life wasn't really a priority. But the accident allowed me to apply myself at school. I got great grades. Eventually I got very excited about anthropology and about social sciences and psychology, and I was able to push my photography even further and eventually discovered film and film schools.” TryingIdeasAbleWantedSchoolFilmSocialRacePsychologyCarPhotographyExcitedAccidentsPrioritiesGradesMechanicAnthropologySocial ScienceFilm SchoolRace Car Author:George Lucas
“Photojournalists know the horrors of war can only be exposed at close range. Kodak Film.” KnowsWarFilmHorrorPhotographyRangeExposedHorror Of WarKodakPhotojournalists Author:James Nachtwey
“And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.” GivingTryingSchoolFilmParentClassMinesCollegePhotographyHigh SchoolSellsPhotographerTrackEmsPrintDismayFilm Photography Author:John Sexton
“To me, photography is 90% a retrospective experience. There's the part of pursuing the image, and exposing the film, but once you make the exposure, you're always looking backwards in time. I like that aspect of photography.” FilmPhotographyAspectPhotographerLooking BackBackwardsExposureExposingRetrospective Author:John Sexton
“I usually befriend the camera department very early on in the film and drive them nuts. I'm constantly bombarding them with questions and going through the stills photography. A film set is a great place for me and I love it.” StillsFilmPhotographyCamerasDepartmentNutsFilm Set Author:Eric Bana
“[David Lean's] images stay with me forever. But what makes them memorable isn't necessarily their beauty. That's just good photography. It's the emotion behind those images that's meant the most to me over the years. It's the way David Lean can put feeling on film. The way he shows a whole landscape of the spirit. For me, that's the real geography of David Lean country. And that's why, in a David Lean movie, there's no such thing as an empty landscape.” WayYearsRealCountryWholeShowsFeelingsFilmSpiritEmotionBehindsForeverPhotographyEmptyLandscapeMemorableGeographyStay With MeGood PhotographyStay With Me Forever Author:Martin Scorsese
“All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object.” FilmArtistSoundInterestPerfectObjectsPersonalityPhotographyScreensInterpretationCopiesMakersMediocrityBoresDiscouragingReproductionRefinement Author:Jean Renoir
“I like photography and I write; I also write music. One day I would like to direct [films] as well.” WritingWellsFilmOne DayPhotographyDirect Author:Zoe Kravitz
“Color tends to corrupt photography and absolute color corrupts it absolutely. Consider the way color film usually renders blue sky, green foliage, lipstick red, and the kiddies' playsuit. These are four simple words which must be whispered: color photography is vulgar.” WayFilmSimpleFourSkyColorPhotographyRedAbsolutesBlueGreenVulgarLipstickBlue SkySimple WordsFoliageColor Photography Author:Walker Evans
“You don't have to shoot the film in the first couple days of principal photography.” FirstsFilmCouplePhotographyPrincipal Author:Seamus McGarvey
“If you are able to see on a monitor what it's actually going to look like and have that kind of feedback informing your decisions, then you're bringing back a lot of the decision-making process of the designer, the director of photography and the director away from the post-production process and bringing it back into the actual capturing of the event on film.” IfsLooksKindAbleFilmProcessDecisionEventsDirectorsPhotographyProductionsPostsDesignerDecision MakingFeedbackInformingDecision Making ProcessPost Production Author:Rick Heinrichs
“I was struggling against the flypaper of other arts harnessing film to their own usages, which means essentially as a recording device or within the long historical trap of picture - by which I mean a collection of nameable shapes within a frame. I don't even think still photography, with few exceptions, has made any significant attempt to free itself from that.” ThinkingMeanLongArtMadeStillsFilmStruggleShapesPhotographyHistoricalSignificantCollectionsExceptionDevicesTrapsUsage Author:Stan Brakhage
“[Photography] can be tiny, on your phone, or it can be a billboard, or a film-sized projection, or printed in a magazine. I don't think we've been in a time before when so much photography is available in so many formats, when everybody is a photographer.” ThinkingFilmPhotographyPhotographerPhonesAvailableTinyMagazinesProjectionPrintedFormatBillboards Author:Christian Marclay
“I regard photography and film simply as new technical means which painters must absolutely make use of, just as from time out of mind they have made use of brush, charcoal and color. It is certain, however, that photography and film must become as evocative for the sensibility as pencil, charcoal and brush. (1927)” MindMeanMadeUseFilmCertainColorPhotographyRegardPainterSensibilityBrushesPencilsCharcoalPhotography And Film Author:Kazimir Malevich
“The dominant problem of pictorial art since the nineteen-fifties is photography, and, by extension, film and video. The basilisk eye of the camera has withered the pride of handworked mediums. Painting survives on a case-by-case basis, its successes amounting to special exemptions from a verdict of history.” ArtProblemEyeFilmCasesSpecialPaintingPridePhotographyBasesCamerasVideoMediumsDominantExtensionsNineteenVerdictWitheredPictorialExemption Author:Peter Schjeldahl
“I am trying to make some kind of connection to what is going on in the world, to make some sort of contact. And I use the instruments that our modern world offers, these extraordinary instruments of photography and film and computers.” WorldTryingKindUseFilmModernOffersComputerPhotographyConnectionsInstrumentsExtraordinaryContactModern WorldPhotography And Film Author:Leon Golub
“In my years of photography I have learned that many things can be sensed, seen, shaped, or resolved in a realm of quiet, well in advance of, or between, the actual clicking of shutters and the sloshing of films and papers in chemical solutions. I work to attain a state of heart, a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of the spirit.” WorldYearsWellsHeartStatesFilmSpiritBornSpaceVisionQuietPaperPhotographySolutionsSubstanceGentleRealmsChemicalsOfferingI Have LearnedPapersShutters Author:Paul Caponigro
“It might be more useful, if not necessarily more true, to think of photography as a narrow, deep area between the novel and film.” IfsThinkingMightFilmNovelPhotographyAreas Author:Lewis Baltz
“... the reason we think that computer graphics technology has succeeded in faking reality is that we, over the course of the last hundred and fifty years, have come to accept the image of photography and film as reality.” ThinkingYearsReasonRealityLastsFilmCoursesAcceptingTechnologyComputerPhotographyHundredFiftyPhotography And FilmComputer Graphics Author:Lev Manovich
“... photography, like all camera-made images such as film and video, effaces the marks of its making (and maker) at the click of a shutter. A photograph appears to be self-generated - as though it had created itself.” MadeSelfFilmPhotographyMarkCamerasPhotographVideoMakersClicksShutters Author:Abigail Solomon-Godeau
“Photography is a very forgiving medium. Anybody that can afford film and a camera can make pictures.” FilmPhotographyCamerasForgivingMediums Author:Todd Walker
“My favorite part about costume designing is the artistry of the job. You meet with a director and a visionary to discuss ideas. You research the characters and figure out the components of their look through your own vision. You create a color palette for a film, television or stage medium and discuss it with the director of photography who then lights your colored subjects.” LooksIdeasCharacterLightJobsFilmVisionSubjectsStageFiguresDesignTelevisionColorDirectorsPhotographyResearchMy FavoriteMediumsCostumesComponentsVisionariesArtistryPalette Author:Ruth E. Carter
“Modernism in a way, early modernism, for instance, in pictures, was turning against perspective and Europe. And all early modernism is actually from out of Europe, when you think of cubism is African, is looking at Africa, Matisse is looking at the arabesque, Oceania. Europe was the optical projection that had become photography, that had become film, that became television and it conquered the world.” ThinkingWorldWayFilmTelevisionPerspectivePhotographyEuropeInstanceProjectionModernismCubismMatisseOceania Author:David Hockney
“As a teenager, I loved acting, painting, photography, and making films with my friend's Super 8 camera. But I always loved writing the best. I chose writing even before I knew poetry was available to me.” WritingFilmActingPaintingPhotographyMy FriendsCamerasAvailableTeenager Author:Denise Duhamel
“My biggest challenge was moving from photography to film without losing my way of working - which is very intimate and learning to collaborate with more people, since photography for me is a very solitary process.” PeopleWayFilmMovingProcessChallengesPhotographyLosingMy WayIntimateSolitary Author:Maya Goded
“From a literary standpoint, I've been loving Raymond Carver's short stories, William Carlos Williams' poems, Richard Siken's 'Crush', John Fante, and Jim Harrison's book of ghazals. I love film and photography too, so many of my songs are very image rich from those influences.” BookStoriesFilmSongRichInfluencePhotographyCrushShort StoryStandpointLove FilmsCarver Author:Greta Salpeter
“Just someone trying to shoot in 70mm deserves the nomination, and he[Quentin Tarantino] is shooting interiors, like tight interior shots, for that matter. Obviously [Quentin] is the director and demanding the shots, but all credit for the beauty of that film [Hateful Eight] goes to the director of photography.” TryingMatterFilmDirectorsPhotographyShotsDeserveEightCreditShootingInteriorsHatefulNominationsQuentinTarantino Author:Bun B
“I was drawn to photography as an extension of film, and the beauty of film is that it's a sensuous, fetishistic medium.” FilmPhotographyMediumsExtensionsSensuous Author:Anton Yelchin
“When I get interested in a new topic I teach a class on it. There's a graduate seminar I teach in which the students and I try to expand the terminology we use to talk about poetry as well as expand our notion of what makes a poem - we read source texts on architecture, dance, photography, film and the graphic novel.” TryingWellsUseFilmClassTeachNovelStudentsSourcePhotographyNotionArchitectureGraduatesTopicsGraphicGraphic NovelsTerminologySeminars Author:Matthea Harvey
“I think I'm no different to my friends who are doctors or businessmen or architects - we all started watching films of the golden age together. But whether I'm making films or writing poetry or doing photography, it's very much rooted in my sense of unease. And that's really where everything goes back to.” ThinkingWritingDifferentAgeTogetherFilmPhotographyMy FriendsDoctorsGoldenArchitectRootedBusinessmanGolden AgeWriting Poetry Author:Abbas Kiarostami
“I do photography and I studied film at school. So I've always really enjoyed that and I've got an eye for camera angles I guess. I've never taken that into filming wildlife.” EyeSchoolFilmTakenPhotographyCamerasEnjoyedAngleWildlifeCamera Angles Author:Asa Butterfield
“I also paint, draw and I'm into film and photography as well, and the same thing applies to all of them. You're presenting this material to the general public and hoping that they're going to 'get' what you're doing. Some don't, some do.” WellsFilmMaterialsPhotographyDrawsPaintPresentingGeneral Public Author:Paul Kane