“You are suspending reality. And just for me, shooting it or doing stills on my own, I feel like it focuses you in a different way. You are seeing shapes and shades of gray. It is about composit...
“What’s fun is, who cares if we shoot at a high ISO? If it has a lot of [visual] noise, it is supposed to be a 16mm grainy documentary from 1966. That’s the beauty of shooting on a m...
” While “Ripley” was largely shot on location, there were sets that proved more difficult to light for black and white, such as the apartment of Dakota Fanning’s character Marg...
Taking color out of the picture literally opens a whole new world of awareness for a viewer. In these extreme darks and blinding whites, more can also be concealed — something Tom Ripley would c...