Claude Chabrol Quotes

Color correction is one of my things.

A film that is bleached tends to have a more realistic quality.

Unless it's done superbly, as in the Japanese film Gate of Hell, color can be a very distracting element.

They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.

I'll tell you one thing. I've never heard a director saying that the dailies suck.

I used to hate doing color. I hated transparency film. The way I did color was by not wanting to know what kind of film was in my camera.

It's near impossible to make a movie in black and white in the system.

The color grading in 'Peaky' is a huge, huge element of the show's distinctive style, you know?

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.

I directed a movie and now, I'm going to do the editing.

First of all, in the old days, if you wanted to show someone getting shot on film, all you could do was place an effect in the original take. And if you wanted to brighten somebody's face and leave the rest of the room dark, that was a very expensive process.

Movie making is not like other art forms, like painting, or writing a novel, because that can be digested or interpreted... It takes two years to make each one of these, and it's always judged on money.

I used to rely on black-and-white, and while I was working on 'Smile,' I learned to adapt to color on my end.

Making a movie requires 20 to 500 people to make and a lot of money and the stakes are a lot higher.

It might sound odd, but I want to thank Michael Bay because he's been saying how important it is to show 3D with the right luminescence. And that's very important for this film, a lot of which was shot at night or with very low illumination.

Learning how to edit movies was a real breakthrough.

In movies, images cost - if you want a big image, it takes more money.

Of course, a movie is in constant flux.

You know, post-production is a bit of a grind to me. If I'm producing a film, I really... I mean I like editing, but all the other crap, the color mixing and... it's all a grind. And so as a result I cut back producing the number of films I was producing.

I like making black and white films in natural surroundings, but I much prefer shooting a color film inside a studio where the colors are easier to control.

Editing is not a part of the filmmaking process I've ever been privy to as an actress.

Same thing with film, by the time you've finished shooting and you've really been into everything, you've touched up everything in the editing room. You've gone in there and taken little bits from everything.

There could be no filmmaking without industrywide agreement on frame rates, lenses, and audio recording equipment.

It's more interesting because you get to research the history of the period, and all the different aesthetic elements that make a film, particularly this film, so stunning.

I've heard it said many times, 'Let's work on the look of the film,' but that doesn't work with me.