I love staging action and wide-shots, not necessarily going to close-ups.
I really love sort of classical cinema where people were telling stories with very little dialogue, and people were using the camera in a really interesting way.
I feel for Veronica Mars so much when I'm watching at home. It is a wonderful story. The writing is consistently funny, biting, charming, heart-wrenching, etc. I also like the look of it. The...
In the next shot the cameras zoomed to the fiancée who noticed the lights in the Czarina's room go out and the camera then turned to the pond where two goldfish were making love.
Tracking action without cutting is the least jarring method of placing the audience into a real-time experience where they are the ones making the subtle choices of where and when to look.
I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie.
There are moments in 'The Raid 2' where I wanted to use the camera to question screen violence.
As delicate as 'Guy and Madeline' was, it was important that 'Whiplash' come off as more of a fever dream.
The kind of pace that you want to use in a Western - just to acknowledge the land in the distance that everyone has to travel, and the way things develop sort of slowly - it's almost the antithetical...
There's always a certain amount of camera improvisation.
I don't consciously aim at shooting movies in different locations but if my films feature never-seen-before locations, then why not.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated...
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and...
You better take care of me Lord, if you don't you're gonna have me on your hands.
It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter...
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
The Edge... there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is...
If I'd written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people - including me - would...
Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.