52 Quotes by Conrad Hall

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.

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.

There are a lot of directors who are knowledgeable about images, and others who aren’t.

It’s important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

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

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

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.