I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.
I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don… - Gordon Willis
I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don…
- Gordon Willis
The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it.… - Gordon Willis
The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it.…
Zooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people dissociate from… - Gordon Willis
Zooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people dissociate from…
Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic. - Gordon Willis
Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.
I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embra… - Gordon Willis
I'm a great believer in relativity when making movies. Relativity, in my mind, meaning "Light to dark, big to small, good to bad." You visually embra…
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that m… - Gordon Willis
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that m…
The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly. - Gordon Willis
The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.
I hate when somebody says, "This may not work." You'll never get anywhere with that. I've pushed a lot of people out of my way - I don't mean physica… - Gordon Willis
I hate when somebody says, "This may not work." You'll never get anywhere with that. I've pushed a lot of people out of my way - I don't mean physica…
If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed up with s… - Gordon Willis
If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed up with s…
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