52 Quotes by Conrad Hall

There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

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

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

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

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

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

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

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.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.