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

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

You get the best effort from others not by lighting a fire beneath them, but by building a fire within.

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

I am a showman in the traditional sense, but modern, too. I like to use sets and lighting to create magic.

You're telling the story, creating the sets, doing the lighting, the designing, and establishing the pace.

I don't know under what lighting I can play Juliet. Maybe with a small night light illuminating the stage.

People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That's utter nonsense.

In the dressing room, we've just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.

Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men's candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.

Life is unpredictable, and I feel, to some extent, lighting and cinematography should be a reflection of that.

There is nothing worse than bright lighting - it isn't flattering and makes the glamorous women want to leave.

I'm really all about lighting, so basically every room in my house has a chandelier, at least all the main ones.

Directing is very close to choreography; you deal with space, time, emotions, lighting, making beautiful images.

I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.

For people who currently have to burn fossil fuels to produce meager, polluting light, LED lighting is a game changer.

The putting on of vestments and lighting candles, it's a wonderful ritual that never changes from one Mass to another.

When I make my own videos, I am the writer, the editor, the lighting person, everything - that's why my videos are blurry.

When I play live, I jump around like an idiot for an hour-and-a-half or more under a lighting rig that's hotter than hell.

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

The lighting changes were definitely the biggest thing and the biggest reason that people don't shoot stop motion outdoors.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

I love the visual medium of film and TV. I love the science of it, working with the sound and the lighting and every aspect.

It's always interesting when you're doing things yourself - getting the lighting, getting everybody together. It's exciting.

There is this church that I go to a lot in New York. I'm not religious but I love lighting candles and stuff. I find it useful.

To me, lighting really sets the mood for a room. A 40 watt bulb in a cheap lamp is the same as a 40 watt bulb in an expensive one.

I've been taught always be nice to the lighting people - they're the people you make friends with straight away so that's what I do.

Many researchers have joined the field and applied the LED to many new markets such as mobile phone screens, LED TV, and LED Lighting.

Even if it's a horrible venue - a bar that barely has a PA and no lighting - we're still there trying to get somebody to not forget us.

There's more energy-saving innovations in lighting. Smartphone and various devices hooked into the home can control the lights and mood.

I was never a hugely successful theatre designer. I painted a lot of scenery and did the lighting, and my lighting business grew out of that.

I like to be working and moving - the worst thing you can do to me is stick me in a room all day while you're lighting a shot. That just kills me.

All my success belongs to those who have contributed in my pursuit of art, ranging from writers and directors to makeup artists, lighting crew, etc.

Filmmaking is a very complex form - ya know, acting, lighting, screenwriting, storytelling, music, editing - all these things have to come together.

On TV, you have wardrobe fittings, you have four cameras on you at all times, and you're worried about your angles and your lighting and your shots.

I got addicted to lighting people up, just seeing people so happy 'cause they rediscovered what they're capable of and so that became my life's work.

I pay two full-time assistants in my studio, plus consultants who are architects, engineers, and landscape architects, as well as lighting designers.

Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs - from wardrobe to lighting technicians.

A lot of people spend all this time painting their house, picking out rugs, and then they put fluorescent lighting in there. It totally ruins the mood.

'River of Light,' to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.

They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and in the foxhole of my divorce, I found solace in walking to St. Patrick's Cathedral and lighting candles.

I walk into the most incredible fashion houses and see the most incredible things - new technology, new ideas, new music. Incredible lighting, new girls.

One of my favorite feelings is the sense I get from pouring over parts of my past before lighting them up and leaving it all behind me to start over again.

Stargate by far is the top of the pile when it comes to Sci-Fi. The quality is great. They have really good writers, production design, lighting, wardrobe.

So much of movie acting is in the lighting. And in loving your characters. I try to know them, and with that intimacy comes love. And now, I love Voldemort.

When you are shooting traditional motion capture, it's a big footprint on set. There are, like, 16 cameras that are needed and constraints over the lighting.

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.

My lighting tends to use contrast as a reflection of the stakes in the scene. The higher the stakes, the more I feel I can get away with an exaggerated contrast.

I was a very ziddi kid. One Diwali, I was hell-bent on lighting an anaar on my palm, and it burst on my palm! It is not a great memory but I still remember that.

I feel like there is a different, new energy when I collaborate with a living artist, whether it be a composer, designer, lighting designer. I love that process.

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