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>"Gyorgy Illes never allowed us to touch a camera during the first year at school," Kovács recalled in a Moviemaker interview with Bob Fisher. "Instead, we drew charcoal portraits and learned about shapes, light, darkness, tones and textures. We also studied music, literature, architecture, painting and the history of art …. Later, he encouraged us to watch films from Western countries that were in the archives on weekends, when no Communist officials were around. Citizen Kane was my introduction to Gregg Toland [ASC]. We were told to study his lighting and camerawork and ignore the story. It was like watching a miracle happen. His lighting changed my visual vocabulary."
Great pictures are made, not taken.
Great pictures are made, not taken.
