Rick Smolan Quotes

I've been a big fan always of getting my camera in different places and trying to seek the unusual vantage point.

I am a man of very many anxieties but doing strange things with the camera is not one of them.

I'm very attracted to directors who want to experiment. The thing that attracts me the most are people who are trying find a language that is correct for their film, for that specific film.

I read things and imagine them and then kind of start trying to kind of take what I imagine and make it visual for everybody else to see. It just happens to be my personal vision, and every person's is going to be different, every book reader.

No two directors make the same film the same way.

I look for projects with filmmakers who want to make things that give the audience a fresh experience.

I feel more like a creative artist using photography because there's - the digital work is so interesting now. It's come to that. I have had many different stages of photography - there are many different ways to take photos. But I feel now I'm in that stage of my life where I use the camera, you know, in that way.

I think if you speak to any creative person, there's something so powerful - so intoxicating, if you will - about discovering another voice, another instrument, another way of looking at things, another way of perceiving things.

It helps to see the world through a different lens, and that's what we wanted to do with Instagram. We wanted to give everyone the same feeling of discovering the world around you through a different lens.

My photography is mainly focused on my work making movies, which I've done my whole life. I think I have a perspective that not many people have. And I get to take advantage of all of the strange sources of light on a set.

I am not a visual innovator.

A short film is not a shortened feature film. It has a soul of its own.

It's not about the equipment. Be less concerned about what kind of camera you have and more about what kind of effect you're trying to accomplish. Finding an original take is much more important than what you shoot it with.

This is my real concern: to give each film a unique individuality.

Director Aji John has a style of filmmaking that will surely appeal to all.

I want to create films that will speak to different parts of our hearts and brains, stories told from a different angle.

From start to finish, my experience with 'Moonlight' has been the most unique thing.

Every director has a sensibility and style, and what works is his originality and conviction.

I have a music-video background, and I feel like the responsibility of a music-video director is to do something that hasn't been done before in a really cool visual way. So much innovation has come in filmmaking through music videos.

I have a particular taste, I do films according to it and promote it accordingly.

Most movies are too brightly lit. I think that may come from a lot of directors having watched too much TV.

We have to create images that remain in people's memory because a film is judged by what they have already seen. You are trying to create an image that is unique and you have to employ all the resources available to you.

I'm very lucky that I'm not a photographer for hire - people hire me for me. I go into every commercial work with an art focus, with that lens; every brand I've worked for just lets me do whatever I want to do. I have full creative freedom.

I definitely have some ideas that perhaps people haven't seen before, so I look forward to putting those on film.

I just try to direct in a way that interests me. And, hopefully, other people will find it compelling.