Tony Todd Quotes

With the black and white films, one was concerned with tone.

Everything always looked better in black and white. Everything always looked as if it were the first time; there's always more people in a black and white photograph. It just makes it seem that there were more people at a gig, more people at a football match, than with colour photography. Everything looks more exciting.

In all my films, I have tried a different look.

I love... anything in black and white. Just put it on the TV, I'll watch.

Shoot a few scenes out of focus. I want to win the foreign film award.

When you make a black-and-white movie with two people in it in 2016, you're taking a swing at something.

If you can make a color show or movie seem like it's in black-and-white, then you've done a really good job.

A movie that I'm involved with and have a lot of love for, which is 'On The Road,' does use a lot of handheld. It can be done beautifully. I'm proud of that. It's a very beautiful movie.

Art ought never to be considered except in its relations with its ideal beauty.

I've been making films since the '70s and trying to develop that best possible fiction-film style that I feel is the most expressive. At a certain point, I felt I was winding up making the same film stylistically and I found that boring.

I respect people that are die-hard film people, but I started on video. I started on Hi8 video and mini-DV, and I made skate videos. So, I love film, and I love the way it looks, but I also love the way crappy video looks, or VHS. I've always been a fan of whatever the look is that's appropriate for what the feeling is.

I continue to be interested in new things that seem old and old things that seem new.

The goal of art-making in general is communication.

Fashion and interior design are one and the same.

It's deliberate that a lot of my films have been period pieces.

I work in colour sometimes, but I guess the images I most connect to, historically speaking, are in black and white. I see more in black and white - I like the abstraction of it.

It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!

Just telling a story. That's cinema. It's not silent, black and white. It's a simple story that's well made.

Every film deserves its own unique look.

That whole Wavy Spice, '90s thing, it wasn't who I was or what I saw myself doing in the future.

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

For me, there's far too many close-ups in film. They're a television technique.

Black and white means photography to me. It's much easier to take a good color photograph, but you can get more drama into a black and white one.

My aesthetic is I love anything in the late 1800s, early 1900s.

I love movies where you can tell who's directed it even before the credits roll in, like Wes Anderson or Quentin Tarantino. People who make very stylized types of film.