Emmanuel Lubezki Quotes

'Session 9' used light and darkness to create atmosphere.

A movie is like a person. Either you trust it or you don't.

Filming is like a house, you have to feel comfortable in it.

It is my passion to direct movies.

I love to produce, and I've directed two short films.

I like to direct for the big screen.

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

I want to direct, I want to be part of something creative, something with quality.

I don't understand the whole testing-numbers thing. It is not how I want to make movies.

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

My principal job is to make interesting and entertaining films, and I'm not proud of which format or which particular technique I use. I just wanted the film to look good.

I view filmmaking as a director's medium.

The type of producing that I did for many years involved working very closely with directors.

Never in the history of cinema has a medium entertained an audience. It's what you do with the medium.

My interest in filmmaking was always very much the visuals and images.

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

That's what interests me about film: directing.

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.

The mystery of film is not in the script. It's in the shooting, in the interacting of humans and space and time.

Cinematography is so much about instinct and intuition - you want the same range of experience going into behind the camera as what you see in front of it. Your life experience will come through the lens.

I liked the whole process of creating on set. It's almost like creating magic. The work that the camera guys are doing at the same time, the lighting... all of the people working in their departments to make one thing.

The script is so important... Even if you have a huge entourage or big lighting trucks, the most important thing is the space between the actor and the camera.

My whole approach is very much about using the locations as a world, trying to find the beauty in the time of day we shoot or the ugliness of it, in cases.

Lighting practically whenever I can when shooting period really helps with authenticity.

But instinct is something which transcends knowledge. We have, undoubtedly, certain finer fibers that enable us to perceive truths when logical deduction, or any other willful effort of the brain, is futile.