“I don't consciously seek out Australian projects. I put them on the same table as all the other scripts and I wouldn't ever do a film just because it's been shot at home.” HomeFilmProjectsShotsTablesScriptsAustralian Author:Eric Bana
“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.” IfsMayHandsFilmDependsDirectorsBenefitsProjectsCreatingShotsEtcMore TimeScratchesSpontaneityLightingFinesse Author:Roger Deakins
“Vertigo is probably my favourite Hitchcock film and probably one of my favourite films of all time. It's a film that I'm obsessed with. I saw it on its first release in vista vision, projected in vista-vision, at the Capitol Theatre in New York. That moment when the nun comes up in the end... it's just an extraordinary shot.” FirstsEndsMomentsFilmVisionSawsNew YorkShotsExtraordinaryCome UpTheatreAll TimeReleaseObsessedThat MomentFavouriteNunCapitolHitchcockVistasVertigo Author:Martin Scorsese
“When you get into the edit you'll understand what making a film is. You'll see all the things you missed and all the possibilities you have from what you shot.” FilmPossibilityShotsEdits Author:Ralph Fiennes
“When you know you made a film that people are going to watch, that's just really awesome; you know you did it for something, you know you shot a film for people to watch it.” PeopleKnowsMadeFilmWatchesShotsReally Awesome Author:Kuno Becker
“The whole visual language of the movie is developed way before we get to set. Especially when you're doing visual effects and you don't have a lot of money to mess around, which we didn't, you have to really preplan everything. Pretty much every shot in the film was figured out months before we got to set.” WayWholeFilmLanguageEffectsMonthsShotsMessVisualsLots Of MoneyVisual Effects Author:Darren Aronofsky
“I used a video camera, and shot on film cameras at school and stuff, but I had a lot more training as a writer. I kind of live like a writer. I get up and I write. I've done that my whole life.” WritingKindDoneWholeSchoolFilmUsedStuffTrainingShotsCamerasWhole LifeVideoGet UpVideo Cameras Author:Noah Baumbach
“Well, outside of the tone, the big thing that I gained from working on horror film was how to shoot really quickly with no money. I learned how to be able to go into a production and know exactly what shot I need to get and how the shot needs to look and what performance I need to get out of the talent at a very quick pace.” KnowsNeedsWellsLooksBigsAbleFilmTalentHorrorShotsPerformancesProductionsTonePaceBig ThingsNo MoneyHorror Film Author:Deon Taylor
“Being an African filmmaker, Africa is what's important for me. If I were to shot a film in France or elsewhere it would only be because the story that was being told was something that concerned me, and that really called me or needed to be shown on the screen.” IfsImportantStoriesFilmNeededShotsConcernedScreensFranceFilmmakerElsewhereWhat's Important Author:Abderrahmane Sissako
“I think it is always a long shot getting a book made into a film. Making that book into a film is going to be quite a challenge.” ThinkingLongMadeBookFilmChallengesShotsLong Shots Author:Alan Lightman
“I never start editing a film until it's completely shot; I don't edit along the way, ever. When it's finished I come in here [screening room] and we start with reel one, scene one and start editing shot by shot by shot until we're finished.” WayFilmSceneShotsFinishedEditingEdits Author:Woody Allen
“I have always been interested in crafting films that use long, static urban landscape shots as a way of manipulating the emotions of the viewer and forcing them to slow down, which I think simultaneously makes them more vulnerable as spectators, and also puts them in a position of being more than just spectators.” ThinkingWayLongUseFilmEmotionPositionShotsVulnerableLandscapeUrbanViewersSlow DownSpectatorsStaticUrban Landscape Author:Jenni Olson
“When I had been a film critic for ten minutes, I treated Doris Day as a target for cheap shots. I have learned enough to say today that the woman was remarkably gifted.” EnoughTodayFilmMinutesTenShotsCriticsTreatedTargetI Have LearnedGiftedDoriFilm CriticsCheap Shots Author:Roger Ebert
“There's a way of thinking that comes with being an editor that is incredibly useful on the set. It's not just a vocabulary thing or a right-to-left thing or script supervisor stuff. It's a way of thinking about the film and the shots and the way they fit together, what you need and what you don't need, and what you can get away with if you have to.” IfsThinkingWayNeedsTogetherFilmLeftStuffFitShotsScriptsGet AwayEditorsVocabularyWay Of ThinkingSupervisors Author:Joe Dante
“Casting is really a black art. It's a huge part of directing and it's the most invisible. It's one that people don't really think about or talk about. But you can really destroy your movie by casting it badly before you've shot a foot of film. And yet there are no guidebooks for it, there's no rule book to tell you how to do it. It's all your own experience and your own sensibility and your own intuition.” PeopleThinkingArtBookFilmBlackFeetHugeShotsIntuitionInvisibleSensibilityCastingBlack Art Author:David Cronenberg
“The only moment football really stops is with a penalty kick - and that is a moment that is really dramatic. A penalty kick becomes a Western duel. It's two guys facing each other. Destiny and potential death, whether metaphorical or literal. That's why in the penalty kick at the end of the film, I shot it like an homage to the Sergio Leone Westerns I saw when I was a kid, especially The Good, The Bad And The Ugly.” TwoEndsMomentsKidsFilmGuyDestinySawsFootballShotsWesternUglyDramaticKicksPenaltiesLiteralHomageMetaphoricalTwo GuysGood The Bad And The UglySergio Leone Author:Carlos Cuaron
“Contrastingly to the new model of distribution, we shot Hand of God using the traditional format of film. I myself use very few apps and tend not to engage in social media. I do use Instagram under my production company's name, but that's it.” UseHandsFilmNamesSocialCompanyMediaModelsShotsProductionsSocial MediaTraditionalDistributionInstagramFormatAppsHands Of God Author:Marc Forster
“And there's even a lord named Lord Dashwood [like the characters in Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility]. It's very steeped in Austen. It's been used in many films, but not in its entirety and we shot the inside and the outside and used every nook and cranny. The inside is very gaudy. It's a little naughty inside. There's a lot of portraiture.” LittlesCharacterFilmUsedLordShotsSensibilityJaneNaughtyAustenEntiretyPortraitureGaudy Author:Jerusha Hess
“On the 'X-Men' films, people are always throwing out ideas and trying to get the shot to look the best and make the most sense, and to get it done efficiently. Everybody collaborates and everybody is very open to new ideas.” PeopleMenTryingLooksIdeasDoneFilmShotsThrowingNew IdeasX MenGet It Done Author:Evan Peters
“For me in a film, almost every scene you end up cutting a bit of the start of it out, and some of the end of it out because there's always...once you've rehearsed it and shot it, it feels like a couple of times and you can always get out sooner.” FeelsEndsFilmBitsCuttingCoupleSceneShots Author:Brian Helgeland
“Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time” KindDoeDifferentRunningFilmRecordsPiecesShotsPressureResponsibleStructureDeterminedRhythmLengthDifferent KindsAssemblyEditsEdited Author:Andrei Tarkovsky
“The Movie is something that I made with some friends of mine in L.A. My friend, Luke Eberl, is the filmmaker. He shot this movie and asked a bunch of his friends to be involved with it. I just saw him the other day and there is no money to finish the film. But, you know, I literally have a cameo in it.” KnowsMadeFilmSawsMinesInvolvedShotsMy FriendsBunchFilmmakerNo MoneyLukeCameos Author:Olivia Thirlby
“So I tried to get my shot with a 50mm and I did it - this is when we're shooting film, not digital. The guy that hired me looked through the pictures and was like, "Oh, this is pretty good. You did a good job." And I was like, "Yeah, I'm sorry. I only had a 50mm. My girlfriend rented the wrong lens..." and he stopped looking at the pictures and he looked up at me and he said, "You shot this with a 50mm? You're hired."” SaidJobsFilmGuyShotsYeahSorryShootingGirlfriendDigitalI'm SorryGood JobLensesMy Girlfriend Author:Jeff Vespa
“When i've done camera test, after we've shot and I've seen the monitor with the glasses (wearing a Kimono) and looking by myself in 3D. Oh my god. Especially for a Samurai film. I've never seen that. It's kind of a culture shock.” KindDoneFilmCultureShotsTestsCamerasGlassesShockSamuraiCulture ShockKimonos Author:Hiroyuki Sanada
“Around age 18, I decided to start writing my own stuff. I wrote some bad short films and shot them. I tried to make them better and better. I slowly learned how to make movies, and I think I'm still learning.” ThinkingWritingStillsAgeFilmStuffMy OwnShotsDecidedShort Films Author:Quentin Dupieux
“When you see Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master and it's shot on film at 75mm it's...you know. It's hard to compare. But I still think that digital is close enough, and I think it's getting closer and closer to be...there's no doubt it's going to be taking over completely unfortunately.” ThinkingKnowsStillsHardEnoughFilmDoubtMastersShotsCompareNo DoubtDigital Author:Fredrik Bond
“We've evolved from sitting back on our tripods and shooting wildlife films like they have been shot historically, which doesn't work for us.” Has BeensFilmShotsSittingShootingWildlifeTripods Author:Steve Irwin
“Some period pieces are shot slightly objectively, a little bit, and some call it stuffy or dusty or old fashioned. I always felt that some of the films that I admire the most are the ones where they're intimate with the characters.” LittlesCharacterFilmFeltBitsPiecesPeriodsLittle BitShotsAdmireIntimateOld Fashioned Author:Nikolaj Arcel
“Most of my life, I thought that I would end up a novelist. But then, in New York City, after college, I started a company with a college friend where we made documentary video for museums. In that capacity, I shot, directed, edited and began to learn the vocabulary of film.” MadeEndsFilmCitiesCompanyNew YorkCollegeShotsCapacityVideoNovelistsMuseumsNew York CityDocumentariesVocabularyEdited Author:Jon Spaihts
“I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't four quadrant this movie, like Hollywood did. I knew it was a very specific audience that was there. We're also taking a shot in the dark.” ThinkingDoneFilmDarkAudienceFourPeriodsShotsHollywoodMeant To BeGoing To Work Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“I have been into bodies and fitness, so I am very critical about how a body should look in terms of flaunting it. I would never fall down and roll and do a cleavage shot - I have seen those in Bollywood films, and those are things I cannot tolerate. I wouldn't do that. That's not me - I'd rather look sharp and sexy and stylish just doing a walk.” ShouldLooksHas BeensBodyFilmFallTermWalksShotsDown AndSexyCriticalTolerateFalling DownStylishBollywoodCleavageFlaunting Author:Bipasha Basu
“You can see all sorts of things in film acting if you know where to look and what to look for. One thing I often notice is that the actor is looking for his mark, the place where he has to stand to be in the right place in the shot.” IfsKnowsLooksFilmActorsActingOne ThingShotsMarkRight PlaceFilm Acting Author:Michael Caine
“Look, it's very easy to sit here right now with some films in the bank that I like and think I have a shot and feel pretty cocky. But, you know, three years from now, I could very easily be saying, 'Paper or plastic?'” ThinkingKnowsFeelsYearsLooksFilmThreeEasyRight NowPaperShotsThree YearsPlasticCocky Author:George Clooney
“Anybody doesn't like these pitchers don't like potry, see? Anybody don't like potry go home see television shots of big hatted cowboys being tolerated by kind horses. Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the poets of the world. To Robert Frank I now give this message: You got eyes.” WorldGivingKindLittlesHomeHandsBigsEyeAmericaFilmNiceTelevisionPoetMessagesShotsHorseCamerasRaisesFrankCowboyPitcherSnapsSwiss Author:Jack Kerouac
“[After Easy Rider] I couldn't get another movie, so I lived in Mexico City for a couple of years. I lived in Paris for a couple of years. I didn't take any photographs, and then I went to Japan and saw a Nikon used. I bought it, and I just started, like an alcoholic. I shot 300 rolls of film. That was the beginning of me starting again.” YearsFilmUsedEasyCitiesSawsCoupleShotsPhotographStartingParisJapanMexicoAlcoholicsRidersMexico CityNikonEasy Rider Author:Dennis Hopper
“I've always intended to eventually make films. I've always been very aware of tone and shots. But documentaries are a great proving ground for me.” FilmProveShotsToneDocumentaries Author:George Ratliff
“I danced in a Lifetime film. We shot in Canada and I got to work with a lot of the dancers who do So You Think You Can Dance, Canada.” ThinkingFilmShotsLifetimeDancerCanada Author:Joan Chen
“And I guess, I guess it's a humanist film. It's not really a spiritual film and it's, you know, it's saying that we're all one tribe of humans and we're on this little rock, floating through the universe and (Amenabar) has these (transitional shots of) POVs where you see humans like ants.” KnowsHumansLittlesFilmSpiritualUniverseRocksShotsHumanistTribesFloatingAntsLittle Rock Author:Rachel Weisz
“When the American documentary filmmaker Donn Alan Pennebaker wanted to do a film on Dylan, Dylan asked him what he'd already done, and Pennebaker answered, Nothing except shots in the street. Dylan asked to see them, and he agreed to let him do the film.” DoneWantedFilmStreetsShotsFilmmakerDocumentariesDylan Author:Raymond Depardon
“We rehearsed for a bit for an Indie film, which is kind of unusual, we had a week of rehearsals before we actually shot the films so we were able to really break down the script and kind of work through all of the improvisational things that he wanted to do, so he had a chance to really feel his way through before we actually shot it and I think that helped a lot.” ThinkingWayFeelsKindAbleWantedFilmBitsChanceBreakWeekShotsScriptsUnusualBreaking DownRehearsalIndie Films Author:Duncan Jones
“There are many things that have stayed consistent. But the biggest change, of course, is technology, the way it's used, the way films are shot, the format that they're shot in, and the way films, of course, are edited. It's very different than it was in the past.” WayDifferentPastFilmUsedCoursesTechnologyShotsConsistentFormatEdited Author:Howard Shore
“European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't shot in sound studios, and that's a good thing, because in the studio system those movies would never have had a chance. And since we were coming from Europe, it was natural for us to use that simple style. Small budgets, less equipment, that was just how it was.” ArtUseFilmEasySoundNaturalChanceSimpleStyleShotsEuropeGood ThingsStudiosBudgetsEquipmentSimple Style Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I don't think there is any advantage to digital unless it's in a case like Slumdog Millionaire, where you have to get a shot and a big bulky film camera is out of the question.” ThinkingBigsFilmCasesShotsAdvantageCamerasDigitalMillionaireSlumdog Millionaire Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“If you need to strap a camera to you or get in a small space, then it makes sense to use digital.I do think it is possible to use a digital camera artistically, but it can only be good if you are using film technique. Film has grain, and digital has pixels, and there is not that much of a difference, but digital does not replace the need to create a scene and light it properly and spend time considering the shot.” IfsThinkingNeedsDoeUseLightFilmDifferencesSpaceSceneShotsCamerasBe GoodTechniqueMake SenseDigitalGrainConsideringEnd TimesSpend TimeSmall SpacesDigital CamerasPixels Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“There is a difference between creating something and just capturing something. And when we were using film, it was not that fast, and it was expensive, so there was incentive to make sure the shot was exactly right before we rolled. With digital, it's fast and its cheap, and it's easy to bypass the rest.” FilmEasyDifferencesCreatingShotsExpensiveDigitalIncentivesCreating SomethingBypass Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.” ThinkingYearsSchoolFilmFourStudentsShotsEuropeTechniqueFilmmakerFour YearsDecemberFilm SchoolHungary Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“I shot my undergraduate work on 35mm. I love the way it looks, but I haven't shot film in a while. If you can avoid scanning, it makes your practice faster. Oh, and I shoot a lot of Polaroid, too. I have about five hundred Polaroids from my film that I hope to show soon.” IfsWayLooksShowsFilmPracticeFiveHavensHundredShotsFasterUndergraduatePolaroidsScanning Author:Laurel Nakadate
“Snow Cake is a lovely film. Really proud of that. We shot it in 21 days. I thought Sigourney was amazing in it. And very, very accurate. I think there was some element that thought she had pushed it too far. But not at all when you do the amount of homework she had done and spent the amount of time she did with adult autistics. She was right on the money. And I think Marc Evans is a terrific director. He's a sweet, open, honest man and a really good director of actors.” ThinkingMenDoneFilmActorsHonestSweetAmountProudDirectorsElementsShotsAdultsLovelySnowCakeAccurateTerrificHomeworkHonest ManGood Directors Author:Alan Rickman
“Even back in the '90s, I shot certain things on something that wasn't digital then, but it was on VHS with a smaller camera and we would up it to film.” FilmCertainShotsCamerasDigital Author:Barry Levinson