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Richard Crudo, ASC on ‘Being a Working Cinematographer’

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World-Renowned DP Shares His Experiences, Insights, and Discusses the Changing Production Climate, including Digital Technology

 

Interview conducted by Jacqueline B. Frost

Richard Crudo, ASC, President of the American Society of Cinematographers from 2003-2006, has been shooting films for over twenty years. He began his career as an assistant cameraman in New York working with master cinematographers Gordon Willis and Michael Chapman. He also worked as a Steadicam operator on Spike Lee’s Jungle Fever and as a camera operator on Donnie Darko. His credits include American Pie, Outside Providence, American Buffalo, Federal Hill and more recently, Brooklyn Rules with Alec Baldwin and Freddie Prinze, Jr., Marker with Steven Seagal, and My Sexiest Year with Frankie Muniz and Harvey Keitel. He often collaborates with director Michael Corrente.

I spoke with Richard at the ASC clubhouse, and he very honestly and frankly talked about being a working cinematographer and the climate of production today.

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