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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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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But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.
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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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Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
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I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
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I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
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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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Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
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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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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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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
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There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
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I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.
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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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The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
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I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.
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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
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My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
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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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In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
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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.