Conrad Hall Quotes
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You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
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My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
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But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.
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But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.
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In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and being on top is the same story as the moth being drawn to the flame. The flame and it's attractiveness is something you'll never eliminate. Some will learn how to live in that environment and others will burn in it.
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To me, the camera is like a musical instrument. You use it to control the flow, shape, size and colors of images.
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Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
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Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
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There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
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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.
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The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
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Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
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I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
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I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
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I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.
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Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
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I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.
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I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.
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It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.
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My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
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I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.
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I just wanted to try directing, and the best way was to write the material, so I was imbued with its origins when I was dealing with the actors.