I have two daughters, and they grew up and wanted to get into Instagram, and I didn’t know anything about social media. I started it to learn about what they were starting to do and how they communicate with their friends. I opened an account. Very fast, in a few hours, I realized that I actually liked it. Emmanuel Lubezki Read Quote
Little Princess’ was the first big movie that I did in America with big stages where we had kind of a different schedule to work. We had a great production designer, Bo Welch, and we had time to think about the movie in pre-production. Emmanuel Lubezki Read Quote
When you’re shooting with long lenses, even if you’re shooting a close-up, you feel the air, the distance between the camera and the subject. Emmanuel Lubezki Read Quote
A normal day of working in Burbank is 14 hours, sometimes more. On ‘The Revenant’ sometimes it was eight hours, but we were shooting only five. So they were short days, but they were very strenuous because of the weather. And it was very dark. Emmanuel Lubezki Read Quote
On ‘Y Tu Mama Tambien,’ we started exploring shots that are longer, where the camera is moving around the actors, and there are no cuts, and you feel like you’re there. Emmanuel Lubezki Read Quote
For each movie that I do, I like to find a specific language to tell the specific story. Emmanuel Lubezki Read Quote
I think the audience doesn’t know a movie’s lit, but they feel it. Because you’ve walked in a forest many times, or in a park, so you know how it looks. When you start lighting, subconsciously you know there is something that is absolutely wrong. Emmanuel Lubezki Read Quote
The most important thing in imaging for me is the dynamic range. The dynamic range means the tones that you can capture from highlights to dark and the bits, the depth of color that you can capture. Emmanuel Lubezki Read Quote