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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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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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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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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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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The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
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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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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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It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
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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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Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
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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 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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My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
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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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I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.
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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.