We love the idea of having a really great lighting production.
As an actor you become that lighting rod between the person who made the play and the audience.
I don’t miss television. It’s too much hurry up and sit around, wait till they do this and do that, and get the lighting just right. I’d much rather go out on a stage anywhere and just play and sing for an hour.
I’ve been performing since I was very little, about three years old. I was inspired at first by the MTV artists of the ’80s and started putting on ‘shows’ in the apartment, most of them set to Michael Jackson’s ‘Bad’ album. In my mind, there was a full lighting rig behind me… but it was just a couch.
Filmmaking is so heavy: there are so many people and trucks and teamsters and costume people and hair people and makeup people. I try to make it light and as simple as possible. It’s great for actors. It puts the story up front. It’s not about shots and dollies and lighting and sets.
Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting.
You can forgive if the shot is not right, or the lighting is a bit off, but not if the writing is bad.
I will always find my light. No question. And if I don’t, I’ll know, because my dad will be the first person to call me and say, like, ‘You need to have him bring another 2K in,’ and ‘Why aren’t you using this sort of lighting gel?’ The crew guys know that it’s where I grew up.
Linear narrative is an artfully-directed telling of a story, where the lighting and the sound is all for a very clear purpose. You’re not just wandering around in the world.
Lighting is everything in order to get the ‘perfect’ selfie.
My dad used to work in the theater as a stage manager, production manager, and lighting designer.
Nearly all Americans felt they knew JFK intimately, his charm and wit regularly lighting up the television screen at home. This is why polls showed that millions of Americans took his assassination like a ‘death in the family.’
We did a student-initiated project of ‘A Little Night Music’, which was the first time that all of the divisions – music, dance, drama, opera – came together and put on a piece. It was a black box kind of feel. We had to get costumes that were pieced together. We had our own lighting that we finagled.
Theatre is about people, not buildings. Incalculable damage has been done to the expert talent a company needs – from wardrobe to lighting technicians.
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.
I always recommend rewiring vintage lighting. It’s not a bargain if your house burns down.
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.
I ran spotlight. Swept up. Did box office. Ran the lighting board. But acting was the most fun.
My mother was a free-spirited clinical therapist, and I had the most hard-working father, a television lighting director by trade. My mum raised me to be a global citizen, with eyes open to sometimes harsh realities.
I enjoy creating lamps because lighting really changes my mood.
When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.
I live out of my van, which gives me a first-hand appreciation for power and lighting. A few years ago, I rebuilt the interior of my van to include solar panels and a battery that powers LEDs for lighting and allows me to charge my phone and laptop.
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.
I liked the whole process of creating on set. It’s almost like creating magic. The work that the camera guys are doing at the same time, the lighting… all of the people working in their departments to make one thing.
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.
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.
When I was studying photography, I became interested in conflict photojournalism, and that got me interested in lighting. Then I realized there was this amazing thing called cinematography where you could kind of tell more complete stories photographing for film. So I ended up going to AFI grad school for that.
My first novel, ‘Compromising Positions,’ was a whodunit. The protagonist was a Long Island Jewish housewife who turns private investigator. But she was Jewish the way I was: lighting Sabbath candles but envying her Protestant and Catholic friends’ December decorating options.
Like Godfather, you look at a movie like that, or something that James Gray has directed, a film with minimal or pin lighting as opposed to everything being lit bright and flat, where everything is evident.
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.
Higher ceilings allow the use indirect lighting, which is much healthier and reduces glare.
A choreographer deals with the movement that you create, and with a creative director it’s about the story, the stage, the lighting, the costuming, executing someone’s idea, choosing how far to go or how little to go, and blending it so that you feel it, you’re emotionally effected.
What’s funny is, I was always certain that I couldn’t be a director because there are things about the physics of camera and lighting that I fundamentally cannot wrap my head around.
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.
I grew up being that kid backstage doing my math homework and my father made sure I knew from everybody in the cast to the lighting people and to respect everyone in the theater and all the way down to the janitor. It’s a part of my childhood. It’s what I know really.
I have nothing against cosmetic procedures, but I don’t want my face lasered. Also, people are naive about how much you can do with make-up and lighting, and I’ve learned from the best.
Light is one of the basic areas that will give you comfort, but it is undergoing a technological revolution in moving from conventional lighting to semiconductor-based lighting, and as it does that, it is becoming intelligent with the transition from analogue to digital.
Imparting knowledge is only lighting other men’s candles at our lamp without depriving ourselves of any flame.
Lumileds is a highly successful supplier of lighting components to the general illumination, automotive, and consumer electronics markets, with a strong customer base.
One of the things that’s interesting to me is I find things like caffeine and stunts actually relax me. When they’re putting a bit of gel on my arm and lighting me on fire, or when I’m about to go into a high-speed car chase or rev a motorcycle up pretty fast, I find everything else around me slows down.
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 once looked like Norman Mailer in a picture with bad lighting.
I love lamps. I can’t stand overhead lighting. I have to have everything on a dimmer.
People used to believe only a professional could do tiling or install track lighting. That’s utter nonsense.
I want to show people that the hospital does have its moments. The hospital is just a place, and even though it does have fluorescent lighting and white walls, it doesn’t have to be a miserable experience.
When I moved to L.A., I had nothing but a computer, a lighting set, and a suitcase.
I’m a firm believer that lighting affects mood, and twinkly lights on strings bring something magical to occasions ranging from concerts to weddings, though I’m fond of using them as year-round home decor.
The pool table, like bathroom graffiti and horrible lighting, is a dive bar staple.
I’d hate to be really beautiful on telly and then have everyone go, ‘It’s all make-up and lighting.’
I hope that energy-efficient LED light bulbs will help reduce energy use and lower the cost of lighting worldwide.
‘River of Light,’ to a dense but powerful score commissioned from Charles Wuorinen and with ravishing lighting by Mark Stanley, has depth and resonance.
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.
There’s more energy-saving innovations in lighting. Smartphone and various devices hooked into the home can control the lights and mood.
In the dressing room, we’ve just made it really Zen: low lighting, lots of candles, and fresh, healthy food.
The biggest problem for badminton is wind direction and lighting. If those problems are not solved, it seriously impacts players’ performances on the court. If a high-level player’s performance is affected by these factors, they suffer setbacks and cannot be fully satisfied on the court.
