Brian De Palma Quotes

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

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

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

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.

The movies that influenced me were movies that told their stories through pictures more than words.

I had become a film director because I thought I could express something in an artful way.

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

Establishing mood through pictorial means is the director Ridley Scott's most notable talent. There may be no working director more accomplished at wringing texture out of the color blue than the prodigious and now prolific Mr. Scott; you'd swear that with his dazzling washes of blues and sand tones, he was inventing additional hues on the spot.

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.

I see my work behind the camera as the actualization of a poem. I like to linger on images, conveying things through stillness.

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

There are some scenes that work beautifully in a moving, sweeping master, which is how I like to work.

It's too bad for us 'literary' enthusiasts, but it's the truth nevertheless - pictures tell any story more effectively than words.

Film is just a great medium to express yourself and a great environment to work around.

I make movies. I have a passion. Puppies and daisies don't accomplish anything. That's not me at all.

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

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.

Americans think cinema is about storytelling; I don't believe that. I think it's a language and everyone has to find their own way of speaking. It's not so much what you say as the way you say it.

I just want to make movies. I really love movies. I want to be involved with them.

Mirrors are the essence of movies.

Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

I've never made a film using dialogue or speech.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

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

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.