Saul Bass Quotes

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

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.

I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!

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

You can't create a movie as you think about it. And what's in the scene is not what's being seen. A shot always means something other than what it is. All are vehicles. A landscape is just a vehicle. The viewer might think different things, and I'm not going to intervene.

I love shooting movies. I love the shots. That's the thing that I love doing, and I've just never been able to do it.

On film, you really have to focus on what you're looking at. You're imprinting a physical image.

As a filmmaker, every tool you get to tell the scene better is important.

When you do a freeze frame, you have the opportunity to find the exact shot that you want - no guessing.

I really enjoy being behind the camera. A ton of projects I've done that are my most favorite projects would be where I actually executive produce and I'm behind the camera.

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

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

Directing has completely changed the way I write and watch films.

Oscars are won with two or three shots only, because if it's really beautifully photographed, you don't really notice it until the astounding moment emphasizes it.

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.

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.

I discovered that, in order to write a magnificent piece, you should shoot the images because once you are filming, you are writing the script in your mind.

I'm not an artist. I set the camera up and tell my story.

Films are neither true nor false. That includes my films, as well as others. They may make claims that are true or false, but films are too complex. They have too many ingredients.

I love movie directors. I don't care who it is.

I studied photography at Bard, but I just felt tired of it. Someone asked me to be in a video but didn't want to be in it, so they told me to make my own, and that seemed more fun to me.

Most screenplays depend primarily on the vision of a director.

I was, and am, a frustrated filmmaker and film student, and my passion and love for movies was so broad that, in the earlier part of my career, I stumbled into doing 'Sports Night' and was a comedy director.

I think from an early age I was aware of how a camera can tell a story, how a movie camera can affect how the narrative is told.