Conrad Hall Quotes

• You have to understand the nature of light.

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  Topics in Nature

  Tags in Understand, Light

• You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Forward, Moving, Student

• 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.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Exposure, Create, Film

• There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors… it’s an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Extraordinarily, Language

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

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Others, Directors

• The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Light, Source

• The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Subject, Source

• The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Understand, Characters, Making

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

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Freedom, Light

• Photography is a very important part of my life.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Life

  Tags in Important, Photography

• Painting and writing are solitary arts.

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  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Painting, Writing

• My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Winning, Means, Difference

• My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Writing, Creative

• Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Writing, Poem

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

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Important, Dealing

• It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Car, Sense, Decide

• It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in History

  Tags in Believe, Cinema

• It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren’t words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Difficult, Describe, Cinema

• In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Music, Highest

• I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

  Conrad Hall

  Topics in Uncategorized

  Tags in Happy, Writing

Conrad Hall (38)

Birth:	21st June, 1926
Death:	6th January, 2003
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Cinematographer

About

Conrad Lafcadio Hall was born in  Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. He was an American cinematographer. For his work he garnered a number of awards, including three Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards. In 2003, Hall was judged to be one of history's ten most influential cinematographers in a survey of the members of the International Cinematographers Guild. He worked on documentaries, in television and minor films, and as a studio camera operator before moving up to cinematographer in major studio films in the mid-1960s. The thirty-year gap between his first two Oscars is a record for this award.

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