Ralph Gibson Quotes

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

I really got into filmmaking through photography.

All my film ideas and subjects have come from photography.

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 didn't really know how to make a film when I made 'Control'. I had to create my own language, just as I did when I started taking photographs. I never studied either one.

It's one of the things I love about my job: it's my job to help a director tell the story, to just be willing to help.

My favourite stuff is visual, and I always want to work with visual artwork. I think it depends on the person, but for me, photographs of an image of something interesting or inspiring is worth a lot more than words to me. I think every concept I've come up with and turned into films or that will be hopefully become a film comes from images first.

The art is the challenge which you must meet every day: the technique you should learn to control with time. The science and the art of photography are really one, and not opposed to each other.

I really like photography, and I'd like to do more of that kind of thing. If I had to choose a different job within the industry and do it well, I would love to do cinematography.

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

I shot this wonderful picture called American Saint a couple of years ago, which is still looking for release.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

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

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

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.

My two great loves when I'm shooting are working with great actors and composing images.

Being behind a camera, in front of the camera, is my own little deconstructionist niche.

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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.

Making a pretty picture, an image, is a completely different thing from acting to camera.

It's not a film-maker's job to explain his technique, but to tell his story the best way he can.

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

I always saw photography as a way to get to film.

You can't expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.

Photography is a major force in explaining man to man.