I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work. Vilmos Zsigmond More Quotes by Vilmos Zsigmond More Quotes From Vilmos Zsigmond 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. Vilmos Zsigmond should want directors Spielberg was very young and starting up when we did Sugarland Express and I loved that, but the main thing was that I really loved his talent. Vilmos Zsigmond starting-up starting talent You make a film for a million dollars and then it costs $10 million to sell it. That's the problem at the moment with independent filmmaking: You can make it cheap and then there's no money to market it. Vilmos Zsigmond dollars independent cost In Slumdog Millionaire when you are immersed in the point of view of children in the slum and the bustle of the city, the handheld camerawork is amazing. A handheld camera is perfect for establishing point-of-view and for instilling the feeling that you are there. Vilmos Zsigmond cities views children There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said something like, in the future they will actually manipulate the actors on their computers. But don't believe all this. Vilmos Zsigmond believe directors thinking I like the film camera better because the film is still one hundred times better than any digital image at the moment. So, there are certain movies that you can't really do digitally. Vilmos Zsigmond digital cameras film Even in manipulating the images, I would like to do my dailies in a digital way because you can do so many things in that stage that I cannot do in real photography. Vilmos Zsigmond photography real way I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty seconds or one minute, you can make some remarkable work shooting in one or two or three days. Vilmos Zsigmond three hate two 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. Vilmos Zsigmond scientist writing people With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day. Vilmos Zsigmond pages numbers television Telling the story with only a few shots, I love that style. It makes you feel like you're part of the action, part of the story. It reminds me of the theater, where one act is basically like one long shot. It almost makes you forget that you're seeing a movie. Vilmos Zsigmond style stories long When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever. Vilmos Zsigmond design editing art If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong. Vilmos Zsigmond technique hands thinking I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie. Vilmos Zsigmond space giving people Using film was so much easier than the digital technology of today. But digital is still at the beginning of what it can be and they'll be fixing all those problems. It's just too complicated - negatives, tinting, flashing - it's a whole new system that takes a lot of time. Of course, it's not as physical. Even the editing. You used to feed a piece of celluloid into an editor. [Digital] is not expensive and that is an advantage, but I must say that I don't love it. Vilmos Zsigmond editors technology editing The studios are never going to make $200 million a picture with those types of movies. It's not familiar to them, and it's not a model that can necessarily be sustained. Now, if they go back to making movies about people ... well, I hope they do that. Vilmos Zsigmond familiar type people A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework. Vilmos Zsigmond homework doe directors 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. Vilmos Zsigmond technology mean jesus 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. Vilmos Zsigmond design different america European films had art. And it was easy to make a European film. They didn't come from the studio system, they weren't shot in sound studios, and that's a good thing, because in the studio system those movies would never have had a chance. And since we were coming from Europe, it was natural for us to use that simple style. Small budgets, less equipment, that was just how it was. Vilmos Zsigmond simple europe art
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