Conrad Hall famous quotes

03-28-2025

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

#Moving #Students #Masters
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
-- Conrad Hall

#Boyfriend #Fathers Day #Dad
I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
-- Conrad Hall

#Thinking #Directors #Filmmaker
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
-- Conrad Hall

#Writing #Shadow #Writing Music
Photography is a very important part of my life.
-- Conrad Hall

#Photography #Important
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
-- Conrad Hall

#Photography #Interesting #Contrast
Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.
-- Conrad Hall

#Language #Infinite #Possibility
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
-- Conrad Hall

#Expecting #Shows #Audience
In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.
-- Conrad Hall

#Tests #Aptitude
I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.
-- Conrad Hall

#Writing #Dining #Sitting
I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.
-- Conrad Hall

#Thrill #Shooting #Firsts
Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.
-- Conrad Hall

#Way #Problem #Problem Solving
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.
-- Conrad Hall

#Art #Eye #Light
Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.
-- Conrad Hall

#People #Billions
I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.
-- Conrad Hall

#Musician #Stills
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.
-- Conrad Hall

#Moving #Character #Film
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.
-- Conrad Hall

#Black And White #Light #Gnarly
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.
-- Conrad Hall

#Cinema #Emotion #Metaphor
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.
-- Conrad Hall

#Jobs #Light #Color
There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.
-- Conrad Hall

#Directors #Knowledgeable
The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.
-- Conrad Hall

#Light #Sun #Far Away
The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.
-- Conrad Hall

#Light #Beam #Source
I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80.
-- Conrad Hall

#Shooting #Stills
It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.
-- Conrad Hall

#Shadow #Important
It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.
-- Conrad Hall

#Believe #Impact #Cinema
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
-- Conrad Hall

#Art #Writing #Painting
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.
-- Conrad Hall

#Done #Evolve #Grows
My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.
-- Conrad Hall

#Mean #Winning #Differences

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