Lubezki Emmanuel Quotes

#1. If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's hard otherwise.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#2. I don't miss film projecting. I always hated it.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#3. The dynamic range of the digital camera is pretty crappy compared to film, but now film is not great because the labs have closed. It's going to hurt a lot of the movies that we did in this gap because I think they are going to look very old very soon.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#4. I would love if film doesn't disappear, if we can have film forever so we would have all these brushes, all these possibilities available.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#5. 'Little Princess' was the first big movie that I did in America with big stages where we had kind of a different schedule to work. We had a great production designer, Bo Welch, and we had time to think about the movie in pre-production.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#6. I can tell you that going to the Oscars is not as exciting as people think, at least for me.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#7. Shirley Temple had charisma as a child. But it cleared up as an adult.

Totie Fields

#8. I'm not crazy about being out of control, and I get emotional when things are unclean. When things are out of order. When things are messy. Because I lived in a mess as a child.

Bryan Cranston

#9. On 'Y Tu Mama Tambien,' we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you're there.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#10. Always see a fellows weak point in his wife.

James Joyce

#11. If anything is certain, it is that I myself am not a Marxist.
[In a letter about the peculiar 'Marxism' which arose in France 1882]

Karl Marx

#12. Here's to responsibility," he toasted. "Twice a week."
"And recklessness every day in between," I emphasized.
He grinned and touched his can to mine.

Stephenie Meyer

#13. Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it,

Emmanuel Lubezki

#14. For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#15. The more tools we have directors and cinematographers will be able to express more and create different worlds and feelings. It's like having more instruments in an orchestra.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#16. I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

Emmanuel Lubezki

#17. She hadn't had quite this much attention from T.J. since they'd started dating. He must feel completely threatened. She wasn't sure if that amused her or worried her. But she turned off her phone just in case T.J. decided he had something more to say.

Robyn Carr

#18. I finally realized that so much of the music world is about how much money you've got, how much you can pay to make your record successful.

Patrick Wolf

#19. I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#20. The most important thing in imaging for me is the dynamic range. The dynamic range means the tones that you can capture from highlights to dark and the bits, the depth of color that you can capture.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#21. If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.

Deepak Chopra

#22. What you don't want is to repeat a formula over and over or impose a formula to a movie that ... when you impose yourself and you impose a formula and you're not open to explore and to find what is right for the movie, I think you're doing a disservice to the story and what you're trying to express.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#23. That's something you'll have to decide for yourself.. I think you have a right to live however you want. Whether you're fifteen or fifty-one, what does it matter? But unfortunately society doesn't agree.
~Oshima, page 198

Haruki Murakami

#24. A normal day of working in Burbank is 14 hours, sometimes more. On 'The Revenant' sometimes it was eight hours, but we were shooting only five. So they were short days, but they were very strenuous because of the weather. And it was very dark.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#25. If you are going to think the same as everyone else and do the same as everyone else, you will end up being the same as everyone else. In today's competitive environment you have to think a bit differently.

Lloyd Dorfman

#26. Where the king goes, the realm follows
-Catlyn Stark-

George R R Martin

#27. Referring, for example, to the principle of fairness, out of which our whole concept of equity and justice is developed. Little children seem to have an innate

Stephen R. Covey

#28. I was able to shoot a movie like 'Tree of Life' because I had done 'Y Tu Mama Tambien.' The camera needed to capture that sense of freedom and joy and life you have when you're young.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#29. The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater and is closer to music. It's abstract but still narrative.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#30. When you're shooting with long lenses, even if you're shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#31. I have a very healthy dream life. I dream a lot many, many, many nights a week. When I'm shooting, it's even more - I don't know if it has to do with stress or with creation.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#32. I did sound for a number of years, so I know the pain of the sound mixer on a set where everybody was talking.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#33. I think the audience doesn't know a movie's lit, but they feel it. Because you've walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong.

Emmanuel Lubezki

#34. The weight of that name
Is sometimes a mountain
With a cave of secrets

And sometimes a feather
Floating on a puff of air

Gabrielle Prendergast

#35. Once you have mastered a technique, you barely have to look at a recipe again

Julia Child

#36. Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

Emmanuel Lubezki