Stephanie Corneliussen Quotes

I want to challenge my cinematography and my editing.

The cinematographer's basically translating the director's vision into imagery.

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.

I am a film director, and I work with a visual language, with a visual medium. And I try to make virtue of the use of this visual medium. And I try to make sure what I do speaks the language of cinema.

I really, really love directing films.

I've always had the utmost respect and awe of what the lens can do and what a director can do with just a camera move.

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren't.

I was very glad later when I was directing that I wasn't in the hands of a cinematographer and hoping that he would do it well. I would know what he was doing, and we could discuss how that scene would look.

I just always had a love for television and movies.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

There's an electrical thing about movies.

Visual elements are, of course, the director's job.

The secret to film is that it's an illusion.

Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.

You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.

USC has really developed my love for the cinema.

I'm interested in films, in directing.

When we say 'cinematic', we tend to think John Ford and vistas and wide-open spaces. Or we think of kinetic camera movement or of a certain number of cinematic styles, like film noir.

I love the medium of film.

I wouldn't apply high frame rates to a love story or a thriller or a film noir or a mystery.

I grew up watching a lot of film.

Honestly, if I could shoot everything in 1:33, I would.

I'm very impressed by films like' Whiplash' or what Fincher does, where you get all these different... Where you get all this coverage that's perfectly linked up. I actually find coverage very confusing. But I love sequencing shots because I know exactly where I am.

I'm usually known for films that look beautiful and attractive, probably because I am a cinematographer too.

Effectively, as a cinematographer, I am always on the lookout for a project that makes me want to go to the cinema.