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Conrad Hall Biography

Conrad "Connie" Lafcadio Hall, ASC (June 21, 1926 – January 4, 2003) was an American cinematographer from Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Named after writers Joseph Conrad and Lafcadio Hearn, he was best known for photographing such films 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.

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Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Audience, Expecting, Show, Shows, Thing

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

Light, Source, Beam, Beams, Subject

Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry.

Billions, Industry, Movies, People

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Art, Arts, Painting, Solitary, Writing

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

Boyfriend, Dad, Fathers Day, Gone, Wherever

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.

Develop, Done, Evolve, Grows, Know

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.

Black And White, Car, Gnarly, Light, Sign

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

Directors, Knowledgeable, Images

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

Alone, Dining, Happy, Sitting, Writing

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

Like, Music, Poem, Shadow, Writing, Writing Music

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

Film, Freedom, Gives, Giving, Light

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.

Color, Infinite, Jobs, Light, Shadows, Subtle

I suppose I would still be a communicator, maybe a musician.

Communicator, Communicators, Maybe, Musician, Stills, Suppose

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

Dealing, Important, Know, Knows, Shadow, Shadows

I don't think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.

Thinking, Directors, Filmmaker, Think, Writer

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

Light, Sun, Far Away, Parallel, Away

I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind.

Thinking, People, Get Better, Think, Kind, Come

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

Differences, Mean, Oscar, Say, Winning

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.

Attempting, Cinema, Emotion, Emotions, Metaphor

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.

Character, Film, Moving, Process, Visualize

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