Alfonso Cuaron on American producers

When I was developing the script for Great Expectations the producers were worried about my depiction of class relations. It's because Americans insist there's no class problem in the US. -- Alfonso Cuaron

Cinematographers pick the 50 best films 2000-2010

Do you agree with these choices? If not, which should be included? Which should be eliminated.

The 50 best films 2000 - 2010: Cinematographers Vote

10 Great Cinematographers - Film History

10 Cinematographers and Sample Clips

What is a Cinematographer? Cinematographer of The Kings Speech Explains

What is a cinematographer? Read an interview with the cinematographer for The Kings Speech

Read an interview with Danny Cohen, cinematographer for The Kings Speech here:

Interview

John Cassavetes talks about film and cinema

Most people don’t know what they want or feel. And for everyone, myself included, It’s very difficult to say what you mean when what you mean is painful. The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to… As an artist, I feel that we must try many things – but above all, we must dare to fail. You must have the courage to be bad – to be willing to risk everything to really express it all. –John Cassavetes

Christopher Doyle Masterclass in Cinematography

Ten Best Italian Films?

1. 'La Strada'
(Federico Fellini, 1954)

2.'The Conformist'
(Bernardo Bertolucci, 1970)

3. 'Ossessione'
(Luchino Visconti, 1943)

4. 'L'Avventura'
(Michelangelo Antonioni, 1960)

5. 'A Fistful of Dollars'

6. 'The Battle of Algiers'

7. 'Dear Diary'
(Nanni Moretti, 1993)

9. "The Consequences of Love'
(Paolo Sorrentino, 2004)

10. 'Pane, amore e fantasia'
(Luigi Comencini, 1953)

Robert Bresson on Film

Make visible what, without you, might never have been seen.

Wernor Herzog on Film

We live in a society that has no adequate images anymore, and if we do not find adequate images and an adequate language for our civilization with which to express them, we will die out like the dinosaurs.

Ingmar Bergman on film and art

I want very much to tell, to talk about, the wholeness inside every human being. It's a strange thing that every human being has a sort of dignity or wholeness in him, and out of that develops relationships to other human beings, tensions, misunderstandings, tenderness, coming in contact, touching and being touched, the cutting off of a contact and what happens then.

Christopher Doyle on Film

Christopher Doyle: The clouds moving across the road in random patterns, the traffic, what's going on by the roadside - all affect the shot. So you have to think just a little ahead, beyond your mundane self. Why fall back on old habits and other people's ways? Why not trust your eyes and intuition? Why not use taste instead of training? Try to find what best expresses what's going on, what's exciting to your eye. What you end up with may not be "new", it may not be brilliant, but at least you can say it's you.

Jean Renoir on Film

All technical refinements discourage me. Perfect photography, larger screens, hi-fi sound, all make it possible for mediocrities slavishly to reproduce nature; and this reproduction bores me. What interests me is the interpretation of life by an artist. The personality of the film maker interests me more than the copy of an object. Jean Renoir

John Huston on Film

The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on. And one day you die. That is all there is to it.
--John Huston

Martin Scorsese on Film and Art

There's no such thing as simple. Simple is hard. Martin Scorsese