You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
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Quotes by Conrad Hall
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There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
Photography is a very important part of my life.
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.
I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.
With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.
Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.
I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.
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