Barry Levinson Quotes

I believe Photoshop is in some way the contemporary darkroom, the creative area that all photographers have available today.

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

There's no more film; now everything's digital. I welcome this. It's fantastic for me to have a new chance.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing - 'Oh, let's put that sentence there, let's get rid of this' - have become commonplace in films and music too.

Digital technology has thrown a closed shop wide open, and there are more people out there snapping away than ever before. Some of the pictures are bad, some of them are good, and many of them need some seasoning and direction.

I am one of the last photographers to convert to digital.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

Right now is a very interesting time because of the digital cameras, and the fact that you can edit anywhere. It's a great time to be a filmmaker, is a great time to be starting off.

I worked at all kinds of jobs, mostly commercial editing.

I love producing. I am loving doing that. I think that is my most natural space in the business. I just love producing or editing and that's where I thrive.

Editing and post-production is so important with comedy.

Every time I take a photo, it goes into SnapSeed. Even if it's just a price tag on something, it still goes into SnapSeed, and I start editing it. I'm not a photographer, so I need all the help I can get when it comes to make a picture look cool.

Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

Nowadays shots are created in post-production, on computers. It's not really photography.

I believe every editor should stand to edit. That's just my particular soapbox. Some things are so delicate and depend on such fine, delicate work. One frame in one direction or another can make such a difference and it is, in that, like brain surgery.

Increasingly, editing means going to lunch. It means editing with a credit card, not with a pencil.

I've always been into taking my photos, cropping them square, putting them through a filter in Photoshop.

I had been working in colour for ten years or so and looked at digital and liked the possibilities it gave me.

I know everything that you can do with digital processing and digital editing inside and out, but I absolutely refuse to push the buttons and don't even want to know how to load and unload the files.

I learned on film at NYU. I was probably the last generation that was analog. Anyone who was a year younger than me, it was probably all digital.

I think digital will displace film, yes. We're talking about digital as a thing of the future, but I'm afraid that it's here.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

I love editing. It's one of my favorite parts about filmmaking.

As a photographer, I'm interested in how dramatically photography has changed. Most images are not real or are composites, and most of us don't even know it anymore.