Film - Florian Banicki, dop

"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities… much more so than music or language." Roger Deakins * "Light is philosophy. Light is the union of all the forces of the universe." Vittorio Storaro * "The goal is not to create beautiful images. The goal is to create images that tell a story and evoke emotion." Emmanuel Lubezki * "Cinematography is a writing with images in movement and with sounds." Conrad Hall * "Light and shadow are really what makes a great image. It's not just the composition, it’s how you shape the light." Robert Richardson * "A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet." Gregg Toland * "There is no perfect image, just moments in time." Christopher Doyle * "Visual storytelling is about what you don’t show as much as what you do." Gordon Willis * "It's not the equipment that makes a film. It's the story you tell and how you tell it." Haskell Wexler * "Cinematography is about capturing a mood, not just a scene." Freddie Young * "Light is not so much something that reveals, as it is itself the revelation." Néstor Almendros * "The camera is a brush, the film is the canvas, and the light is the paint." Jack Cardiff * "Good cinematography is not about making pretty pictures, but about serving the story." John Alcott * "The truth always lies in simplicity." Sven Nykvist * "You don’t shoot movies, you make them. One frame at a time." Robert Elswit * "The best cinematography is the one you don’t notice because you’re so immersed in the story." Caleb Deschanel * "I like to create an atmosphere. It’s not only the light, it’s the composition, the movement of the camera, the shadows—it all works together." Vilmos Zsigmond * "I don’t see cinematography as separate from storytelling. It’s not about making images—it’s about making meaning." Bruno Delbonnel * "A great image is not just about beauty, but about feeling, about poetry." Darius Khondji * "The camera should be a participant, not just an observer." Barry Ackroyd