Conrad Hall Quotes

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

My photography changed from being more documentary-like to arranging things more, and that came into being partly because I started doing music videos, and I incorporated some things from the music videos into my photography again, by arranging things more.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

My films start with images, a few images and a few feelings, and I try to edit them together to see the correspondence between these images and these feelings.

I don't use film in the way that the great auteurs do. I use film, the camera, to record as effectively and as perceptive as I am able what I want to say through the actors.

I think a truly fantastic video is worth it. We spend so much time on the music, it only makes sense to have a really well-done visual translation of that music.

For me, I'm not a great wordsmith, and so maybe from lack of great dialogue writing, I thought it's easier and better to express a story through visuals.

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

When you're making video, you're giving structure to time, which is what a composer does.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

I take photographs with love, so I try to make them art objects. But I make them for myself first and foremost - that is important.

Opera tells stories through the pure emotion of music. An exhibition has to tell a story purely visually. I've tried to incorporate both of those things - pure emotion and being more visual - into my writing.

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

We wanted to take as much time and effort making the video as we did the song.

In Hitchcock's eyes the movement was dramatic, not the acting. When he wanted the audience to be moved, he moved the camera. He was a subtle human being, and he was also the best director I have ever worked with.

Every picture has its own demands, and every picture stimulates something within you to tell it a certain way. I don't know what that is; I don't think too much about that.

I always had a dream about trying to make a movie that had no dialogue in it, that was just music and pictures. I still haven't done it yet, but I tried to get close in the beginning.

So to me it's very similar in terms of trying to distill within the image, those elements that are gonna form, hopefully, a compelling visual statement.

A picture is a poem without words.

I've been obsessed with this kind of visual storytelling for quite a while, and I try to create material that allows me to explore it.

I just say I'm an artist who works with pictures and words.

The real power of comics is writing as you draw.

I can use movie as a language. Not only could it send a good message, I could let people know about my thinking and how I see the world, how I see the colour, how I see the music, how I see everything.

The text illustrates the pictures - it provides a connective tissue for me. I usually refine the text last, partly because pictures are harder to do, so it's easier to edit words - I use text as grout in between the tiles of the pictures.

One of the difficulties of photography is that it is much better at being explicit than at being reticent.