Good Cameraman Quotes & Sayings

David Fincher is probably the best comprehensive director in terms of being a manger of a process that must drive forward. He has such confident command of cinema language and visual language and script and performance. He knows more about f-stops than any cameraman, he knows more about lighting than any gaffer, he is a wonderful writer, and he can give you a good line reading. Under pressure, he is the kind of guy who you will just dive in with and trust and follow because his vision is so intense. — Edward Norton

I have kept track of the boy with the bread. — Suzanne Collins

I don't really have anything to say. Basketball is not a game that you can play with your mouth. It needs action to prove yourself. — Yao Ming

Simplify, simplify. That was the secret to a happy life. — Dean Koontz

The mind is like the wind. You're trying to stop the wind, dressed as a kite. How are you going to do it? — Mooji

To form a judgment intuitively is the privilege of few; authority and example lead the rest of the world. They see with the eyes of others, they hear with the ears of others. Therefore it is very easy to think as all the world now think; but to think as all the world will think thirty years hence is not in the power of every one. — Arthur Schopenhauer

What I believe is really good in the so-called documentary approach to photography is the addition of lyricism.[this quality] is usually produced unconsciously and even unintentionally and accidentally by the cameraman. — Walker Evans

I had to know at least two languages. — Novak Djokovic

If there is a wrong way to do something, then someone will do it. — Edward A. Murphy Jr.

...What I have to say is very simple and very short: [Jean-Pierre Melville]'s the greatest director I've had the good fortune, pleasure and honor to work with up to this point. It'd take too long to explain. He's wonderful. He knows more about cinema than anyone. He's the greatest director I know, the greatest cameraman, the best at framing and lighting, the best at everything. He's a living encyclopedia of cinema. — Alain Delon

Since a camera is something too heavy for women and initially made for men, you need a good cameraman. — Mitra Farahani

Love can't exist without happiness. Happiness can't be spontaneous
without love. — Debasish Mridha

In short, teachers are more, not less, likely than many other workers to get fired. — Dana Goldstein

The cameraman isn't thinking about whether you're good that day. He's too busy worrying about what he has to do. — Meredith Salenger

Children's books do not exist in a vacuum, unrelated to literature as a whole. They are a portion of universal literature and must be subjected to the same standards of criticism as any other form of literature. — Lillian H. Smith

The world's not falling apart imperceptibly anymore, these days it makes a loud shredding noise! — Steve Toltz

If you don't wake up for Fajr, then don't wake up at all — Hamza Yusuf