Spike Lee Quotes

I feel a lot of films that are shot digitally, even low-budget independent films, they look super slick now. Because the technology is so good that they look too good.

Making this movie was a great opportunity for me to explore high-definition. I'm glad I got to see what the challenges are, what makes it better. It works wonderfully.

It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.

I wouldn't necessarily recommend shooting a feature film on a still camera.

I've had a really hard time dealing with 35mm. I greatly prefer HD.

Technology continues to bring us wondrous advances in filmmaking to improve how we view movies.

If I made a film today, it would certainly be on digital.

It would be naive to say that you could make a movie on film for the same price you can digitally.

Whether you make an action blockbuster or a comedy or a drama, you've got the right camera and all the right technology to do it. In games, it's not the same yet, and I would like to see technologies dealing with cameras the way we do - dealing with bouquet, dealing with performance capture, with lighting - with all this stuff the way we do.

So many films are being shot on the DSLR, that they're all starting to look the same. There's a shallow depth of field. It's a nice look, but I can always identify a film shot with a DSLR.

I have a shot a lot of movies in Dubai.

I read about some movie where they did everything on blue screen, and the actors were not even connecting to each other.

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

Historically, filmmakers always fall in love with every frame, but now that even neophytes are given final cut, this love affair carries with it serious economic implications.

The nature of motion capture is only going to work for certain films. It's not going to put any other type of movies out of business.

There are many applications for which film is going to be better, for a very long time.

It is not as though the process of production holds any mystery for me, I know exactly what it involves and I know the predominant concern in shooting one of those things is production values - or as they would say, seeing it all up there on screen.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

I have no opinion on 48 frames a second at all. I'd be completely unsuitable to talk about that.

Motion-picture studio floors used to be all wooden and not smooth at all. This was difficult when moving a camera around on a dolly.

I'm really interested in having a studio one day and being a filmmaker.

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.

I even agree with the new digital ways of filmmaking, where you don't even have physical film in the camera, but to be honest, I wouldn't want to use it.

'Dark Knight' shot in London and Chicago, and we were on that for so long.

I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There is no intermediate film step. It's 100% digital animation, but as far as a live-action film, I'm still planning to shoot everything on film.