125 Lighting Quotes for You to Enjoy

All that attention to the perfect lighting, the perfect this, the perfect that, I find terribly annoying. Meryl Streep

Find Perfect Attention Lighting Annoying Terribly

There are bound to be differences in any artistic collaboration with landscape elements, or theater, of lighting elements. Michael Arad

Differences Collaboration Bound Lighting Any Artistic Theater Landscape Elements

My first day in grade school, I was plain scared. I left the comfort of my run-down house, which I loved, and went to school where it was cold, it smelled, the lighting was bad. Michael Keaton

Day School First Cold Bad Scared Lighting Smelled House Comfort Left Grade Grade School Where Loved Which Plain

Specialization makes it easy to forget about the filth of the coal-fired power plant that is lighting this pristine computer screen, or the backbreaking labor it took to pick the strawberries for my cereal, or the misery of the hog that lived and died so I could enjoy my bacon. Michael Pollan

Plant Power Enjoy Filth Took Bacon Easy About Could Computer Misery Computer Screen Pick Power Plant Lighting Makes Pristine Labor Forget Died Screen Hog Cereal Lived Specialization Strawberries

Any time you do opposing camera angles, there's gonna be some compromise in the lighting. Michael Spiller

Time You Opposing Some Angles Compromise Lighting Camera Any Gonna

I love playing the Hard Rocks; they've got a great stage, great lighting, great sound, and not so humongous; its more intimate, so we love playing theaters and clubs where the audience has a really good chance to see and hear the group and where the acoustics are good. I like it when we can hear what we're doing. Mike Love

Love Good Great Stage Group Intimate See More Lighting Like Audience Got Sound Doing Hear Rocks Where Theaters Clubs Acoustics Really Hard Good Chance Playing Chance

You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad. Moran Atias

You Writing Bit Bad Lighting Off Forgive Shot Right

A room is like a stage. If you see it without lighting, it can be the coldest place in the world. Paul Lynde

You World Stage See Lighting Like Without Place Room

I'm not one of those playwrights who says, 'Show up, hit your marks, and don't talk to me!' I always want to hear from the other artists involved, whether it's the director, the lighting tech, or the actors. Pearl Cleage

I think lighting is a reflection of what is at stake emotionally in a movie. Rachel Morrison

Reflection Think Emotionally Lighting Movie Stake

Ashok Mehta was the man who brought contrast and lighting back to mainstream Hindi film cinematography. Rajiv Menon

Man Back Cinematography Brought Mainstream Lighting Hindi Contrast Who Film

When you work as a cinematographer, the actors look to you for reassurance. When you're lighting them, they can never think you're making an adjustment because of the way they look. If they are nervous, it impacts their performance, which impacts the story. Reed Morano

Work You Nervous Think Cinematographer Way Adjustment Impacts Never Lighting Performance Look Because Making Story Which Them Reassurance Actor

I played around with the flowers and the lighting, so that was a good way to educate myself. Robert Mapplethorpe

Myself Good Way Good Way Lighting Around Educate Played Flowers

There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot. Or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or that spectacular shot, a big crane move, or something. Roger Deakins

You Big Nothing Worse Draws Wow Some Something Attention Lighting Go Itself Than Move Oh Might Shot Spectacular Ostentatious

I'm involved in everything from highly progressive lighting systems to airline interiors. In the field of transportation I can go from the micro to the macro: architecture, transportation, industrial product design, right across the board. It's Russian dollism, because they all interrelate: one goes into the other. Ross Lovegrove

Architecture Field Design Other Progressive Everything Airline Systems Russian Highly Lighting Involved Industrial Because Go Goes Micro Board Across Product Interiors Transportation Right

Hollywood is a special place; a place filled with creative geniuses - actors, screenwriters, directors, sound engineers, computer graphics specialists, lighting experts and so on. Working together, great art happens. But in the end, all artists depend on diverse audiences who can enjoy, be inspired by and support their work. Ryan Kavanaugh

Work Art Great Working Together Together Creative Depend Enjoy Great Art Diverse Directors Inspired Computer Support Lighting Geniuses Sound Audiences End Artists In The End Happens Place Experts Hollywood Working Engineers Special Who Graphics Special Place Filled Specialists Actor

My generation is so used to having our public spaces look like the Starbucks, with the beautiful lighting and the little bit of Nina Simone and my coffee that's blended a certain way from Costa Rica. Sandra Tsing Loh

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I love the industry that I'm in. I love what I do, and I've sort of grown from being an actor and being on set. I take it all in, and I talk to the grips and the Best Boys and talk to lighting guys. I talk to everybody and see what they do and pay close attention. Scott Foley

Everyone was very deeply involved in the world of 'The Lord of the Rings'. From the wardrobe department to lighting, all were fascinated with the story. This is something that does not happen usually. Sean Bean

World Everyone Rings Something Lighting Involved Does Lord Lord Of The Rings Were Very Department Happen Story Wardrobe Fascinated Deeply

The script is so important... Even if you have a huge entourage or big lighting trucks, the most important thing is the space between the actor and the camera. Sebastian Koch

You Space Important Big Entourage Trucks Lighting Between Most Most Important Thing Important Thing Camera Huge The Most Important Script Even Actor Thing

The promise of energy savings, reduced carbon emissions and affordable lighting was there from the inception. The proliferation of the technology into areas such as displays, automotive, medicine and horticulture was unexpected. Shuji Nakamura

Technology Energy Medicine Savings Proliferation Promise Area Emissions Lighting Reduced Affordable Unexpected Inception Carbon

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