Conrad Hall Quotes

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Conrad Hall

Profession : Artist

Birth : June 21, 1926

I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

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

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Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

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You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

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Painting and writing are solitary arts.

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But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

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There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

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You have to understand the nature of light.

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I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.

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I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

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But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.

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Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

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

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With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

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I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

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That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally.

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I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.

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Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

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I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

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My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

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