Martin Parr Quotes

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

When you're doing the work, film and TV are exactly the same. TV is just film in reduced pieces.

I think naturally I'm a very visual kind of person. If I wasn't in filmmaking, I'd be in something related to visuals. And I used to actually work as a visual-effects artist.

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.

I feel that working with the camera and editing it is actually my strong suit.

In TV, you have no time and sort of just carpet bomb the scene with as many angles as possible as quickly as possible and find it in the edit.

In my early teens, I knew I wanted to do television production. I loved cameras, editing and producing, anything that had to do with television production. My friend had a production studio across town, and we'd go over there at night and shoot and edit. I produced my father's televised service for 17 years.

I love it when television is shot in a cinematic way and I think to aspire to that is no bad thing.

I think my own strengths are in television production.

When you're making TV, the last thing you want to do is watch TV. It's too much.

I've always been interested in the camera and the effects of it - that's what drew me to film in the first place.

I've always painted or drawn pictures or taken still photographs; now I shoot movies. It's just about making images, really.

I hate making TV documentaries.

I started with digital filmmaking. I've pretty much only done digital filmmaking.

I'm interested in producing more TV shows.

I'd love to set up shop somewhere and develop projects - film, TV, digital would be a fun thing to do.

I've picked up so much about the technical aspects of filmmaking and television.

I really missed what I'd done on Rogers Cable, which was shooting and editing all my own stuff.

Television is a producers' medium. There is a formula with a certain number of closeups for each show.

I love to watch videos, and I've always liked to film and take pictures. I have an eye for really weird things that nobody thinks about. I used to make little movies about myself and then edit them on iMovie.

A digital camera does have many advantages and I was a believer that digital video would be a big influence on film-making.

In the theater there are 1,500 cameras rolling at the same time - in the cinema, only one.

I love making movies, I love the differentness of it, I love writing. But I've always liked television. I grew up on television.

I depend on good editors and a good director. It's up to the way they shoot it, the lighting and all that. I like how small you can be on TV.

I would love to. A dream of mine is to produce films, as well as to produce content for television.