During a seminar at EnergaCamerimage Film Festival on Friday, described as “the best event of the festival” by one of the participants, Oscar-winning French cinematographer Philippe Rousselot share…
“Philosophically, I hate the idea of power, command, obedience. It’s not in my DNA. But when I think of my attitude on set, I have to remind myself that I have been very dictatorial, almost tyrannical. This contradiction is the origin of this conversation,” he said.
“He was fixing the light and asked if it was going to be in the frame. I said: ‘Let me go back to the camera and check.’ He stopped me: ‘Use your knowledge of optics and tell me if my light will be in your frame.’ It made me understand the level of professional expertise I was expected to bring and that a part of this collaboration is about having a support system.”
“What I look for in an operator is basically a clone of myself. An idealized clone. Somebody who will be able to do exactly what I want, but better.” “At the first screening of ‘Interview With the Vampire,’ I was mortified. One of Philippe’s Chinese lanterns was in the shot. I called the editor, and he went: ‘Oh yes, it’s there. But it’s staying, so get over it.’ You have to be able to take criticism, because a shot doesn’t have ownership, it’s either working or not,” he said, with Rousselot opening up about a particularly unsuccessful partnership in the past.
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