Nicholas Ray Quotes

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

I don't think all films should necessarily look like they do on digital video. I think it cheats the audience, at some point. If you try to make an epic and you shoot it digitally, that doesn't make much sense. I think there's a certain kind of film that could be a "digital film." But it shouldn't be interchangeable with other films. It should be something more than just a capture medium. It should be a different form altogether, something new.

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Robert Crumb is an influence on how I draw, but not on the subject matter I take or my approach. One thing I do like about Crumb is that he's chronicled his age, his times, and I think that is what artists should do.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

I love 3-D, and for certain movies it can be really great, and for certain movies it can be poison.

My mentor in college was Stephen Shore. I loved his color palettes and his taking mundane things but finding them fascinating.

I am happy that thousands of students, young designers and fashion people will be able to see and study my work in every aspect of it.

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

It's quite amazing what 3D is doing to movies. Just simple things like a paper plane flying at you or flower petals fluttering about are wonderful.

Music is very influential to my writing, as are theater and film.

With 'Brick' there was the Dashiell Hammett influence, and with 'Brothers Bloom' there was a really strong Fellini influence - both those movies wore that on their sleeve.

I have been very influenced by the director Maurice Pialat, who I continue to be in conversation and conflict with and get inspiration from.

I've seen some of James Cameron's work, and I've got to go 3D.

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

Stephen Frears is brilliant and has made movies that inspired me for my whole life.

I love Maira Kalman. She's an amazing illustrator and writer. I've loved her since I was in college, but when I moved to New York and experienced the same city she was drawing and writing about, I developed a whole new appreciation. Her work made me observe everything so much deeper and more joyfully.

I come from music videos and commercials, where style is a big part of the whole world. I've always tried to add that to whatever I'm doing.

In the same way that musicians inspire me, artists and photographers like David LaChapelle influence me with their visuals. A photographer like LaChapelle creates an entirely new and unique visual for their work, and that's what I'd like to do with the Charli XCX world as well.

I think visually, and music videos spark my creativity.

Making my first record, I was really inspired by all the color palettes Sofia Coppola has in her films.

When I was 16, I watched a lot of world cinema. I borrowed a lot of my personality from cinema. It has been one of my biggest teachers.

If you could custom build new cinemas for every release of every movie, I think filmmakers would work in a lot of different aspect ratios.

I'm a visual learner, so film is a huge inspiration to me.

When I watch a movie I don't really care too much about the plot - not that it isn't important, but what I remember is the visual imagery, something that happens in an individual scene.