Top 33 Quotes About Cinematographers: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Cinematographers

#1. I've worked with some of the great cinematographers. So I'm always watching what they do and I'm watching how the director composes his shots, just because I find it interesting as an actor; you're trying to help them out as well.

Eric Bana

#2. Our memories are convenient lies we create, cribbing images from others' experiences. We discard the personal specifics which don't conform to the ideal conventional beauty created by art directors and cinematographers.

Damian Loeb

#3. 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

#4. Most people think of cinematographers as choosing subjects of an epic nature to show off what they do - big, sweeping images of war or pageantry.

Caleb Deschanel

#5. I never look a gift horse in the mouth. And I've been really, really lucky. My career has been given to me by the people I've worked with. The actors, the directors, the cinematographers, the writers, all of whom gave me the opportunity to work in the way that I have and I'm really grateful.

Meryl Streep

#6. I think that digital is offering many great possibilities for cinematographers. Particularly in urban cityscapes and low light photography its allowing us to render what we actually see with our eyes; which is interesting.

Seamus McGarvey

#7. The visualization of my films is always very important to me and I work very closely with my cinematographers. I've never had the same cinematographer twice now that I think about it. I don't know why that is. Everyone is always busy. They do three or four films a year. It's vital to me.

Scott Hicks

#8. Sexism is real and it persists in film and television. I've seen female directors openly undermined by male cinematographers in front of the entire crew

Liz W. Garcia

#9. Male crews know that women cinematographers are here to stay, and there will be more of us. If they're professionals, they behave as such.

Maryse Alberti

#10. Films like 'Bond' fund training schemes for film technicians of the future, and working on films themselves provides a great training ground for budding directors and cinematographers. If there's no money there for films to be made, it's like a house of cards, it all comes tumbling down.

Callum McDougall

#11. There are, of course, many, many, many good cinematographers and unfortunately they don't work as much as many of those people who do those crazy, stupid movies.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#12. Cinematographers couldn

Barbara Delinsky

#13. I was very fortunate in the '70s to work with the best actors, the best directors, the best cinematographers.

James Caan

#14. I think women have made progress in cinematography, contrary to women directors, who I think have regressed. There are many more women cinematographers than when I started.

Maryse Alberti

#15. It's turned into a world of amateurs. There are amateur actors making millions of dollars, amateur cinematographers, amateur directors ... Jesus, these amateur directors can get deals for anything. Another comic book? Oh, very good.

James Coburn

#16. We are now, all of us, cinematographers for the movie of our own lives. Not the star. Not the director. Not even the writer.

Andrew Kaufman

#17. I have a profound respect for cinematographers. That is my secret sauce. Like they are everything to me.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#18. To me I just, I'm a geek when it comes to cinematographers . And when it comes to Robert and when it comes to someone like Roger Deakins who shot Prisoners and he shot Jarhead.

Jake Gyllenhaal

#19. That excites me, working with really excellent people, be it wonderful directors or actors or cinematographers and especially writers. My work life is going to a set and having these great experiences and coming home shifted by them.

Deborah Kara Unger

#20. Mexican cinematographers Gabriel Figueroa and Emilio Fernandez were students of both Sergei Eisenstein and Toland. Their exteriors and lighting were gorgeous. And the films Ingmar Bergman did with Sven Nykvist were exceptional.

Vilmos Zsigmond

#21. I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.

M. Night Shyamalan

#22. You have to give directors and cinematographers a word blueprint for visuals, but I had to learn that from experience.

Steven Bochco

#23. I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

Roger Deakins

#24. Very few cinematographers, other than the Europeans, know how to light women like they used to in the old days.

Jennifer O'Neill

#25. I've been lucky to learn by playing all kinds of roles and watching all kinds of really good cinematographers, actors, and directors for many years before people were even aware of me in terms of audience.

Viggo Mortensen

#26. Tuck's home, so I suggest we use our indoor voices.

Elle Kennedy

#27. I have always wanted to be either a cinematographer or a veterinarian.

Christopher Bollen

#28. Culture is more and more consciously becoming a project carried out in the domain of language by, for instance, propaganda both governmental and commercial.

Terence McKenna