Top 33 Conrad Hall Quotes

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

I hope I’m still shooting when I’m 80.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

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.

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.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

It’s important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

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.

That’s why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

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.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren’t.

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.

I don’t think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

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 want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

You have to understand the nature of light.

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language.

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.

I realize that every picture isn’t a work of art.

Photography is a very important part of my life.

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.