Nicolas Roeg Quotes

So much of it is the design of the shot or the motion of the character; it's the work you do so that it has the same things that are in the movie. In just a few frames it's got to communicate something clearly and dramatically.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

You ought to have a perspective when you're making a film.

The process of shooting - of choosing shots - is intuitive for me, and I just feel my way towards what seems right.

At any filmmaking class, you learn the power of the visual medium and are always trying to minimise the words.

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

I've been in enough movies to know that when you're on the set and you start shooting, you're looking at playback and you get a sense of what it's going to be like.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I really, really love directing films.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

Whenever I arrive on a real location, I have to move around and work out what the best angles are going to be. When I was moving around with the lens, I discovered things that the naked eye would not have.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but that's much more to do with the staging and the cutting and the mood of the thing as a sequence, the way everything comes together.

I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

Film, I think, is my medium.