Lighting Control Quotes

Turning on the light is easy if you know where the switch is.

The only thing that gets in the way of a really good photograph, is the camera

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

Emotionally, light very much influences, I feel, the audience. It's not something that most audience members are conscious of, which is a good thing, because it means as filmmakers, we have the opportunity to gently control an audience into feeling a certain way.

If you begin with the middle-tone and work up from it toward the darks so that you deal last with your highest lights and darkest darks, you avoid false accents.

When you use film, you use accidents, but there aren't any accidents with digital photography. I don't mind that it's easy. But I do mind that there is a sort of consensus with the camera and the subject and the light, and you look at something, and you photograph it, and you get what you see.

I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated.

We love the idea of having a really great lighting production.

I've always been interesting in the lighting aspect and always listened to what they were saying.

I'm obsessed with lighting. I'm constantly shopping for different lightbulbs. I love rainbow lightbulbs. And also, one should not live without dimmers. Life is all about lighting.

Lighting is everything in a color.

I love lamps. I can't stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.

You just have to learn certain technical things, like where the camera is, not to block people's light in your own, to hit your marks, and that you do it kind of piecemeal.

Proper lighting is everything, Julianna.

It's more fun if you can control things like lighting and make special effects in the darkroom.