Muriel Rukeyser Quotes

I think for me, what I'm doing on set is I'm watching things happen as an audience member and trying to just look at, what's the image we're photographing, how will that advance the story and what will the next image be.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.

It's something that I've always been attracted to, that idea of letting everything happen in a single frame.

There are particular images that I like. Allegro is composed of a series of still life photographs that has been put to speed. There is so much care that has gone into the composition of the cinematography.

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

I'm interested in the space between the viewer and the surface of the painting - the forms and the way they work in their surroundings. I'm interested in how they react to a room.

The job is trying to create movie shots that have depth, that have the meanings you need them to have, and then good enough so that they will add something to the final picture. They will make the picture; they'll get into the picture, and give them what they need. It's an interesting job.

I am not at all interested in theories about cinema. I am only interested in images and people and sound. I am really a very simple person.

As a director, you're looking for ways to tell the story with the whole image and not primarily dialogue.

I believe that the best cameraman is one who recognizes the source, the story, as the basis of his work.

I try to combine in my paintings cinematic feeling, emotional feeling, and sometimes actually writing on the page to combine all the different elements of communication.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

The job of the color photographer is to provide some level of abstraction that can take the image out of the daily.

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

Good painting is the kind that looks like sculpture.

How I draw and how I leave things out is parallel in some ways to the non-verbal soundscape in radio stories.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

With the work that I do as a director, I've got dialogue, camera movement, and character blocking to help create a tone to the piece. In photography, those elements are somewhat void so that tone becomes a bit more subtle but still equally important.

The sizes and shapes of the panels have never been important to my stories. It has always been the words and images that drew me in, kind of like watching a movie.

Don't bother looking at the view - I have already composed it.

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.

A shot is only as every as good as how well it tells the story.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.