Lighting Designer Quotes & Sayings

I was convinced that our beliefs are based much more on custom and example than on any certain knowledge. — Rene Descartes

Children can be disciplined with love. — Gordon B. Hinckley

Our best protection against bigger government in Washington is better government in the states. — Dwight D. Eisenhower

I want to be a force for real good. In other words. I know that there are bad forces, forces that bring suffering to others and misery to the world, but I want to be the opposite force. I want to be the force which is truly for good. — John Coltrane

There is a door. It opens. Then it is closed. But a slip of light stays, like a scrap of unreadable paper left on the floor, or the one red leaf the snow releases in March — Jane Hirshfield

Everybody you work with sees what you're doing from a different point of view, a very specific point of view. So, if someone is lighting, they're seeing it from that point of view. A production designer is seeing it from the placement of furniture that tells you about the character. Everything that goes into the room should tell you about the person who lives in that room. — Fred Schepisi

This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that. — Sparky Anderson

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that. — Kevin McCloud

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Whether it was working on theatre sets or stage lighting, I didn't realize most all of the skills I was exposed to were going to come in handy later on when I became a designer. — Douglas Wilson

The most successful and brilliant work a lighting designer can do is usually the least noticeable. — Jean Rosenthal

How clever of you, sir, to be rich rather than smart. — Charles Morey