“I mean, the minute I saw the first two episodes, I knew this was for me. It’s real film-making, more so than even many films that you work on now.” So he met with AMC executives, whom he remembers saying, “We don’t want television coverage. We want cinema, we want film-making.” “I said, ‘You guys know what you’re asking for here? Because everybody says this and then in the end, they don’t really mean it.’ And then a day or two later, Vince [Gilligan] called me and said the same thing — ‘I don’t need to see their faces all the time. I love silhouette. I love expressive photography and interesting angles.’” Slovis, who shared the same visual tastes, was sold.
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‘Breaking Bad’: Michael Slovis, a visual storyteller - latimes.com
I love many many things about Breaking Bad, but one of the most distinctive I think is the way they allow imagery to tell the story. Truly cinematic.
