Connor Franta Quotes

The visual architecture of 'Biutiful' is the most sophisticated of all the films I have directed.

The first few films I made didn't look good at all, and I wasn't trying to make them look good. People dig 'em because they like the content.

Image plays a huge part in my music and in my lifestyle.

So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point.

What a director should be doing is making it appear as though there was no script.

Going into a shoot not fully knowing what I want to do - that excitement, that thing that happens, is just so powerful and makes such great pictures.

I don't think I would be a good actor! People enjoyed 'Dancing With the Stars' because I was myself, and every time they told me to say something, I would say my own words, so I don't think I could follow a script well!

A special effect is a tool, a means of telling a story. A special effect without a story is a pretty boring thing.

I love the idea I can go off with a single camera and a few rolls of film unencumbered... I was not interested in the illusion of reality, I wanted to get close to what was happening.

I watched a couple of really bad directors work, and I saw how they completely botched it up and missed the visual opportunities of the scene when we had put things in front of them as opportunities. Set pieces, props and so on.

I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.

Video is freeing, but also lazier. You have to recreate the love of the moment.

I love telling stories with images. But I think there's more to just saying a movie is great visually.

A lot of the earliest 'Instagram' celebrities took really beautiful photos. But you're starting to see a change where it's not about beauty; it's about the story that you tell.

We do not need a text-based cinema... we need an image-based cinema.

People confuse 'pretty' with good cinematography.

I'm always taking behind-the-scenes photos and stuff.

My visual medium is my videos, and I've got to feel as though I can put my truth in that.

As a cinematographer, I was always attracted to stories that have the potential to be told with as few words as possible.

I love Instagram and photography.

I know it's a bit of an awful thing to say, but I really just make things up. My main goal is to make a picture that people find interesting to look at and that has my name on it.

I really started to enjoy Instagram more recently because it's something that shows people what I'm doing and what I'm going through, but it's so simple. I don't have to come up with something witty; it's just a funny photo, and you can be as artistic or as plain Jane as you want.

Some photographs are like a Chekhov short story or a Maupassant story. They're quick things and there's a whole world in them. But one is unconscious of it while shooting.

You can't overthink the music. Mood and intensity can't be manufactured. The blues isn't about structure; it's what you bring to it. The spontaneity of capturing a specific moment is what drives it.

For me, the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity.