Karel Reisz famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it's an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.
-- Karel Reisz

#Expression #Style #Cameras
A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.
-- Karel Reisz

#Desire #Elements #Conformity
I said I would do all the films about the commercials, and the films about ball-bearings and Ford tractors and so on, if once a year they gave me money for a free film.
-- Karel Reisz

#Fog #Years #Balls
I'm now beginning to feel that the pessimistic vision is not for the movies.
-- Karel Reisz

#Vision #Pessimistic #Feels
The British cinema had been very dull and conformist.
-- Karel Reisz

#Cinema #Dull #British
Minority views expressed in films simply don't sell tickets.
-- Karel Reisz

#Views #Minorities #Tickets

The Analytical Engine] might act upon other things besides number, were objects found whose mutual fundamental relations could be expressed by those of the abstract science of operations, and which should be also susceptible of adaptations to the action of the operating notation and mechanism of the engineâ€¦ Supposing, for instance, that the fundamental relations of pitched sounds in the science of harmony and of musical composition were susceptible of such expression and adaptations, the engine might compose elaborate and scientific pieces of music of any degree of complexity or extent.
That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag)
Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.
the search for the ultimate skyscraper goes on. ... At worst, overbuilding will make urban life unbearable. At best, we will go out in a blaze of style.
A viewer as opposed to a filmmaker might see a film differently. But I'm extremely comfortable with my style.
It's funny, but certain faces seem to go in and out of style. You look at old photographs and everybody has a certain look to them, almost as if they're related. Look at pictures from ten years later and you can see that there's a new kind of face starting to predominate, and that the old faces are fading away and vanishing, never to be seen again.
This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.
I started in a research lab for TV cameras, then I worked at a tape duplication facility. That was the first introduction for me to recorded music and hi-fi.
You know, when cameras are rolling, improvisation doesn't feel natural. The pressure is too great. You're on a time schedule. You've got 60 crewmen.
When the novice photographer starts taking pictures, he carries his camera about and shoots everything that interests him. There comes a time when he must crystallize his ideas and set off in an particular direction. He must learn that shooting for the sake of shooting is dull and unprofitable.

Karel Reisz famous quotes

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