Photography Lighting Quotes

#1. 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.

Matthew Modine

#2. To say I'm the easiest person to live with would be a lie.

Yancy Butler

#3. There are people who expect me to look the way I do on-screen, where I have a great director of photography and fantastic lighting. I'm sorry to disappoint people, but I don't look like that all the time - no actress does.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

#4. There is 3 key things for good photography: the camera,lighting and ... Photoshop

Tyra Banks

#5. Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you're engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting ... wonderful!

Joe McNally

#6. I think people just see cinematography as being about photography and innovative shots and beautiful lighting. We all want our movies to look great visually, to be beguiling and enticing, but I think that what really defines a great cinematographer is one who loves story.

Seamus McGarvey

#7. To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

Roger Deakins

#8. Photography, of course, is the perfect medium for the investigation. It can reveal the truth of present day specifics and particularities, while at the same time, by conscious choice of lighting and pictorial structure, suggest the aesthetic legacy of the past.

John Pfahl

#9. You're safe, Lauren," he murmured and my eyes came back to his.
"You weren't safe with him but, honey, swear to God, you're safe with me.

Kristen Ashley

#10. I try about four or five looks during a shoot. A look can be defined by changes to hair, makeup, jewelry, props, furniture, background, partial clothing, fabric accents, accessories, lighting, etc.

A.K. Nicholas

#11. People are always a little disconcerted when you don't recognize them, they are so important to themselves, it is a shock to discover of what small importance they are to others.
[The human element]

W. Somerset Maugham

#12. I can only show you the doors, you must choose one to walk through and discover what you find on the other side.

Peter Koevari

#13. Maybe Cinderella was the bad guy in the story, and her stepsisters were just nerdy girls who wanted a boyfriend. How politically correct was it, really, to make the villains ugly? And how realistic? In my experience, it was usually the pretty people who were mean to the ugly ones, not the other way.

Alex Flinn

#14. Take the happiness you can, even if it's only a little.

Gennifer Albin

#15. The core concept of Samasource is essentially that technology helps us unlock human talent wherever it may happen to reside. That we should no longer be victims of the birth lottery. That no one should be stuck in a poor place where they don't have a job simply because of an accident of birth.

Leila Janah

#16. I remember in particular my first victory when I achieved a very fast time in what were perfect conditions but since then the wind has always been a factor against me.

Haile Gebrselassie

#17. In the beginning of my photography I controlled everything: rearranging the room, lighting it, and telling people what to do and where to put their hands. By the last project, I was basically totally at the mercy of serendipity.

Philip-Lorca DiCorcia

#18. God alone can deliver us from a life of meaningless activities.

T. B. Joshua