[How John wants to be remembered] "Just as a guy who was interested in the golden thread that intertwines all of us together. You know, that golden thread that goes through me and you, and the cameraman, and all the people out there and back through Nancy...
John Ritter
There`s a difference between ad-libbing and improvising. And there`s a difference between not knowing what to do and just saying something. Or making choices as an actor. As a writer also, as a person who`s making a film, as a cameraman, everything is a c...
John Cassavetes
I couldn`t be a cameraman or a designer or an actor - I have to be a director because I learned how to do that from my dad. Generally, I`ve never known quite how to fit in in civilian life, but on set, making a film, I know exactly where to go, how to beh...
Joe Wright
I know this sounds so little, and not serious enough, but I believe that I have to have fun. We all have to have fun - me, the actors, the cameraman, everybody should feel as if we are making a home movie, because that is the only way to open the film to ...
Milos Forman
[on Irene Dunne] Nothing is instinctive, everything she does is very carefully thought out, she knows her camera and lighting as well as any cameraman, she knows every movement, every intonation, every nuance. She`s a first-class craftswoman. But instead ...
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.
Directing ain`t about drawing a neat little picture and showing it to the cameraman. I didn`t want to go to film school. I didn`t know what the point was. The fact is, you don`t know what directing is until the sun is setting and you`ve got to get five sh...
David Fincher
[advice to actor Bruce Davison, on the set of Ulzana`s Raid (1972)] You try to please the director, and the cameraman and the soundman, and you`re acting and acting and acting and by the time you come to your close-up, you`ve shot your wad. It`s like maki...
Burt Lancaster
You have to be a producer nowadays. You have to find the subject, find the writer, find the cameraman, cast it, and then you go to a producer.
Vincente Minnelli
People always seem to assume that we have a full, back-up support team - make-up, costume and a driver - but usually, in a war zone, there`s only me and the cameraman.
Kate Adie
My cameraman and I devised a method, which we started using from my second film, which applies mainly to day scenes shot in the studio, where we used bounced light instead of direct light. We agreed with this thing of four or five shadows following the ac...
Satyajit Ray