57 Quotes by Vilmos Zsigmond

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

I look at a picture like Scarecrow and think, ‘Jesus, how could they have let us make that?’ I mean, if you used technology that old nowadays, it would look like old Hollywood.

These days that wouldn’t happen – waiting for the light to be exactly right. Because it takes time and time is money. And with these big productions with expensive actors, you just don’t have the time to get every shot exactly right.

When we came to America, the movies here needed a “new wave.” European films looked totally different than American movies, which were these lush, glossy pictures with this elaborate production design.

When I was in Hungary in December I was looking at student films and I could not tell which ones were shot on film and which ones were shot digitally. I think that is because the filmmakers in Europe go to four years of film school and learn the techniques.

I love to make movies about young people – young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

I think that film is still an artform and it doesn’t really matter if you’re using a digital camera or a film camera.

You always like to be the collaborator. I don’t want to take over the movie, because if I want to do that, I should really become a director because then you have the control of everything, basically. I’m very happy to just be the visual part of it, doing the visual part of the movie.