Showreel Clips
Clips can also be seen at YouTube. Go there and search for “David Forbes Show Reel” or click on this link:
“I know how to use movie lights, but I can also see when the natural light is perfect.” – Conrad Hall ASC.
Matthew Leonetti, ASC: “ . . . cinematographers are responsible for creating looks and feelings that have a psychological affect on how audiences experience the stories we are helping to tell.”
“Either you know for sure that you’re never going to be wrong, or you get used to being frightened all the time. At this stage in my career, I’m pretty used to being frightened!” – Conrad Hall ASC.
“Information is never essential, it’s mood that’s essential.” D A Pennbaker.
Showreel Clips
This clip: “Montage 4” is about my style as a cinematographer. Wait for it . . . !
Sometimes we need angels . . . this is St Michel
Vittorio Storaro ASC, AIC, (the youngest ASC Lifetime Award Winner, and winner of three Academy Awards): “Extra coverage ‘just in case’? In case of what? In case our plan is no good? That way of working costs . . . . a lot of money, and it drains the quality of filmmaking”.
Influence: Caravaggio’s “Calling of St Matthew”
Caravaggio’s “Betrayal of Christ”. Studying the masters.
I’ve worked with maybe 30 cinematographers in my life, and if you don’t have the right one, you don’t have the film. – Nimrod Antal, Hungarian Director.
“I come with a high passion to make something, and I expect everybody else to have that same passion.” – Robert Richardson, ASC.
I prepared to be a cinematographer by studying the works of the old master and impressionist painters. – Jack Cardiff, BSC
10 Films that influenced me
Ju Dou, by Zhang Yimou (China) 1991
Once Were Warriors, by Lee Tamahori (New Zealand) 1995
Diva, by Jean Jacques Beineix (France) 1981
Gone with the Wind, by Victor Fleming (USA) 1939
Bronenosets Potyomkin (Battleship Potemkin) by Sergei Eisenstein (USSR) 1925
Casablanca, by Michael Curtiz (USA) 1942
Metropolis, by Fritz Lang (Germany) 1925
Lawrence of Arabia, by David Lean (UK) 1962
Roma, by Federico Fellini (Italy) 1972
Novecento (1900), by Bernardo Bertolucci (Italy) 1976
