Conrad Hall
Conrad Hall
Conrad Lafcadio Hall, ASCwas an American cinematographer from Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing films such as In Cold Blood, Cool Hand Luke, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, American Beauty, and Road to Perdition. For his work he garnered a number of awards, including three Academy Awards and BAFTA Awards...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionCinematographer
Date of Birth21 June 1926
CountryUnited States of America
I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end.
I knew exactly how I wanted it to play, but you are never sure until you watch the projected images reflect off the screen. That's when you know it worked.
Painting and writing are solitary arts.
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.
My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.
I realize that every picture isn't a work of art.
I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
I just wanted to try directing, and the best way was to write the material, so I was imbued with its origins when I was dealing with the actors.
But you still have an awesome responsibility, because you are helping to create something which might influence the thinking of millions of people.
The truth is that every experience, every feeling, every film you see, becomes part of the sensibilities you apply to making a movie.
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.
But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being.
My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.