Top 1200 Photography And Film Quotes & Sayings - Page 18

Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.

Even if the film doesn't come out quite as you'd hoped, the process can also be very rewarding. I feel that way about a film called 'Lay the Favorite' that I made with Stephen Frears. I did that because the character was a real leap for me. The film doesn't quite all add up internally, but I feel very proud of what I did on it.

Digitization has altered the nature of the film industry. Social media, especially, has become a decisive factor in determining a film's box office success.

There is a scene in one comic from the '60s-'70s where Batman finds a film, a newsreel film, of his father. This newsreel film is from the '50s, and his father has come to this costume ball in a Zorro costume, which strangely enough looks a lot like a Batman suit in the footage.

I have made all my films for my children with the exception of my first film because my oldest daughter wasn't born when I was making the film about the Brooklyn Bridge.

I think that there is an air of experience and aesthetic sophistication that weaves in with the amateur aspects of the film [Dream of Life]; it gives the film a certain elegance.

...the subject, the thing itself, is the genesis of all types of photography.

Hollywood is a film industry, a film business. I don't approach my career in that way. I see it as 'art,' and I become involved in films that ring my bell.

Photography deals exquisitely with appearances, but nothing is what it appears to be.

The art of photography is all about directing the attention of the viewer.

Photography is my passion. Whenever I get time, I click.

When film director T.K. Rajeevkumar cast me in the role of the iconic Rathi in the new edition of 'Rathinirvedam,' I had no idea it was such a cult film.

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

Photography is 10% inspiration and 90% moving furniture.

I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.

In Europe, there is no television filmmaking legislation that could assist film production because private broadcasters are not interested in supporting Polish film.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

Photography is a foreign language everyone thinks he speaks.

Photography is choosing where to point your eye-cone.

In film, movies' schedules are based on three things: actors' availabilities, when are sets being built, when you can rent the place you're going to film in.

Photography was the first foreign language of my artistic expression.

I believe in the relation between photography and music; And thats my inspiration.

The Hindi film that I recommend is 'Ijaazat.' It is my most favourite film; it is a poetry in itself, and Gulzar Sahab is somebody I am a huge fan of.

Acting's all about the confidence you exude, especially on film. I mean, nervousness isn't attractive in anyone, but a film camera will seek it out and punish you.

I started with Tamil film, then Hindi. Now, I am also doing a Telugu film. The journey has been wonderful so far.

I'm accused constantly of having 'no signature.' That's the big artistic demerit. You can't tell a Wyler film from another man's film just by looking at it.

When I was young, I felt my talent lay in photography, not movies.

When I make an American movie it's going to come out all over the world-it doesn't happen the same way for an Italian film or a French film.

'Tangerine' being my fifth film, I was out of favors. I couldn't afford to get the Arri Alexa or RED cameras and I definitely couldn't shoot on film.

If youre not interested in life, then photography has no meaning

A successful film begins by choosing a director whose creative vision will define the choices made by everyone involved in the film.

My filmmaking style of remixing came out of necessity. When I was a film theory student at UC Berkeley in the early 1990s, there were no film production facilities. The only way I learned to tell stories on film was by re-cutting and splicing together celluloid of old movies, early animated films, home films, sound slug - anything I could get my hands on.

Photography is a language more universal than words.

I would say the three stages of making a film are the initial 'are we gonna do this,' 'how much will I be paid,' is there a lot of nights, who's it going to be with? The second stage of doing a film is how much fun your going to have doing it. The third stage is was the film a hit?

What is a commercial film? I think every film is commercial, as every film makes money.

Photography is the most direct communication in non-violent contacts.

Photography has a relation to intervention, but photographing is not the same as an intervening.

Prose is a photography, poetry is a painting in oil-colors.

Even in ordinary reproduction [photography] verges on facsimile.

Photography is a distributive act leading to a privileged condition.

I can't watch a movie where the actors are great and the photography sucks.

What I love about photography is that nothing is really as it seems.

To me photography must suggest, not insist or explain.

If this film has come out so well, the credit goes to Trivikram garu. This one is a 100 percent director's film. He is the real hero of 'A Aa.'

I think that every film should have its own structure, and that's the beauty of film language - is that we get to express that deeply individualistic side of ourselves.

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

Film maker Andi Olsen has a wonderful short film called Where the Smiling Ends. She waited at the Trevi Fountain in Rome and filmed the tourists only at the moment after their photos had been snapped, the moment their smiles dissolved. It's genius and heartbreaking. I think about her film when I explore the places the strips malls meet the wild world they are eating up.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

I open events for museums and I do charity work and photography.

For many years I wanted to do a film, but I never had the courage to clear my desk and say, 'OK I'll take a year off and do a film.'

Photography is the truth if it’s being handled by a truthful person.

Photography has always been about capturing light.

I'm very interested in the language of photography in relationship to painting.

The first thing I say when people ask what's the difference [between doing TV and film], is that film has an ending and TV doesn't. When I write a film, all I think about is where the thing ends and how to get the audience there. And in television, it can't end. You need the audience to return the next week. It kind of shifts the drive of the story. But I find that more as a writer than as a director.

TV-makers usually don't know much about photography.

I did a film called 'Nightfall,' based on Isaac Asimov life, which was directed by an American director. However it was a short film.

I think I'm a pretty cliché actor in that I hate watching myself on film. I don't know why it should be humbling to see yourself on film.

We really care about photography at 'Vanity Fair.'

If you make a film, that magic is not there, because you were there while shooting it. After writing a film and shooting it and being in the editing room every day, you can never see it clearly. I think other people's perception of your film is more valid than your own, because they have that ability to see it for the first time.

Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.