roman polanski and photography

In an interview about his schooling, Roman Polanski said that you could be a crappy writer and still graduate from film school. You could also be a crappy director and graduate. You could even be a crappy writer and director and still graduate from film school. The one thing you had to do well in order to graduate was photography.

Its importance cannot be overlooked because it is the primary way in which one communicates in the medium. The biggest blunder that new screenwriters make is injecting too much dialogue into a film, essentially making it into a play that is on film. The filmmaker must know how to communicate through photography first and foremost.