Matthew Gray Gubler Quotes

I'm one of the few directors that actually shoots a lot in camera.

So many directors say nothing beautifully, and so many others say great and profound things but have no idea how to read a light meter or arrange a shot.

I was never one for multi-cameras; my approach was always... I always considered there was only one place to be to do a shot.

When you shoot a movie, the camera is always taking, taking, taking and not giving anything back.

I also know what looks good before the camera, how to move the camera, and how to get a story on the screen.

I feel every shot, every camera move, every frame, and the way you frame something and the choice of lens, I see all those things are really important on every shot.

I've storyboarded for things other people have shot. So thinking in shots and orchestrating shots is not foreign to me at all.

Finding where to put the camera is probably the most important thing you have to learn when you're a young director, and it's something that's a mixture of instinct and technique.

I thought Jack's directing job was the best thing about the film.

I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

I don't like to watch playback. But being on the set, watching the way the camera is being moved and the way the light is being used, you do get an idea of it.

I really, really love directing films.

Every year or so, I try to do something; it keeps me refreshed as to what's going on in front of the lens, and I understand what the actor is going through.

You don't want to be the guy whose back's to the camera in the emotional part of the movie. So, you have to be aware of the camera movement and what the camera's doing.

In my films that I've directed, and my work in commercials and videos, I've rarely used handheld. It's just not something I'm drawn to, but I've seen it done very well.

My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.

I learned a lot about how to shoot and how to put together sequences.

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

Zhang Yimou is an artist. Sometimes we did only two or three shots a day because we were waiting for the sun.

People who are good at film have a relationship with the camera.

You talk about what a director, he was smart. He said, Turn the camera on!

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 really got into filmmaking through photography.

When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.