Robby Müller Net Worth

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Robby Müller Net Worth is
$850,000

Robby Müller Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018

Robby Müller was born on April 4, 1940 in Willemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles as Robert Müller. He is known for his work on Sokeja tamsoje (2000), Breaking the Waves (1996) and Dead Man (1995).

Date Of BirthApril 4, 1940
Place Of BirthWillemstad, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles
ProfessionCinematographer, Camera Department, Actor
AwardsNational Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography
NominationsIndependent Spirit Award for Best Cinematography, Satellite Award for Best Cinematography
Star SignAries
#Quote
1The absence of colour can be a stronger factor than the presence of colour.[2008]
2Wim and I became well known after The American Friend (1977) and I made features in Holland, Germany, France and a few - not many - in America. (...) When you're working there, there's not much room for improvisation and low-budget shooting. It's all well-planned in advance. It's all machinery...so at first you are overwhelmed by it and your work starts looking maybe 'American.' After my first film in Hollywood, I could have been booked out for a year, maintained myself there, got a Green Card, joined the union. But it's not really my world.[1993]
3I've not been involved with the later Dogma films, but I understand them very well, because that's the way I started. We had nothing. I was not frightened to shoot a complete film with one lamp. Or no light at all. As people dare to do it and take the consequences of it, they will find the light.[2008]
4In the early days - when I started my career - most cameramen were pretty arrogant. They didn't talk to you. I would have liked it so much to speak with them. But I never have! And now at Camerimage almost everyone you want to see or speak to is there. Storaro - whoever - is there and you can speak to them if you want to. Yes, the feeling stays...Teacher and student, actually I have always remained a student...like everyone.[2008]
5For me, seeing 8½ (1963) was very important. What that cameraman [Gianni Di Venanzo] did there in a tunnel! Really breathtaking! You could totally understand the way he introduced Claudia Cardinale in that film. A fantastic moment. Ni]cely done. Carried by light.[2008]
6There are many films made today where the color is not really necessary, but you don't have a choice because the distributor wants color so he can sell it. But I always have a kind of 'thinking exercise' with the director, 'Why not in b&w?' or 'Why not in color?' So if we explain it to ourselves we know where we have to pay attention because, if you make the kind of films I generally make, color could give you too much information. Alice in the Cities (1974), for instance, would have been very bad in color. The same with Down by Law (1986). You would have had so much information around you that it would distract you from what you are telling. "Alice in the Cities"(1973) was originally planned for color. We even had a sponsor, Polaroid, who was bringing out that same year the SX-70 [a compact, reflex-viewing camera for Polaroid film] on a trial market in Florida and they agreed to sponsor us. But when Wim [Wim Wenders] and I discussed it I said this will be no good in color; this little girl will be totally lost in this loud, exotic New York. Polaroid later agreed but they didn't withdraw their sponsorship. [June 1993]
#Fact
1Lives with his family in a house with a view on the Prinsengracht in Amsterdam, Netherlands.[2008].
2He was born in the colonial Dutch Antilles and didn't see Holland until he was 13 years old in 1953.
3Jim Jarmusch at the Lincoln Center, New York, April 2014: "Robby Müller, I learned so much from this man about filmmaking, about a lot of things, about life in general and about light and about recording things and about capturing things in the moment and about trusting instincts. Robby and I had a really wonderful way of working: No storyboard, a shot list only if really necessary for ourselves. I still don't like making a shot list each day when I'm working. Robby's idea is about instincts, trusting your instinct and your intuition and Robby would always say things like: 'Of course we can plan everything in advance and when we go to that location it's a different time of day, the light is different, the clouds are different, so why would we cling to the idea we had previously? We must always be on our feet.' Think on your feet. And we did a lot of interesting things while scouting for this film together which was: We find the most dramatic, incredibly beautiful landscape you could imagine and then we would turn our backs on it and film the other way. [audience laughs] That was something that Robby said: 'Look how magnificent this is, we've seen it in a fucking calender! Let's look over there, it's a small tree and a rock, very sad and emotional, you know?' [audience laughs] So we would film that instead. And this is just one example of the kind of way that Robby thinks. And I learned so much from him, thinking that way. Don't look for the obvious, always keep your eyes open, keep thinking on your feet. Shooting a film is a process and you can't control everything in the process, so be open. Another thing Robby taught me was: O.K., you're shooting a scene outside and suddenly it starts raining. And most crews would say: 'Well, the scene doesn't take place in the rain, so let's pack up and we'll have to stop for today'. And Robby would be: 'I wonder what it would be like, if the scene's in the rain. Maybe it's much better'. Or if we already shot some of it: 'O.K. think of some dialogue where they say it's about the rain, you know?' Like, keep thinking, keep thinking, don't be set in your script. It's something that came from Nicholas Ray, who said: 'If you just gonna shoot the script then why bother?' And that's something Robby also instilled in me. Robby Müller is a kind of brilliant man who's a very rebellious teenager in part of his spirit and yet an incredibly technically gifted person.".
4Lives in Amsterdam, Netherlands.
5Member of the 'Official Competition' jury at the 41st Cannes International Film Festival in 1988.

Cinematographer

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Alice in the Cities1974
Die Eltern1974TV Movie
Die Reise nach Wien1973
The Scarlet Letter1973
Can1972Documentary
Marie1972TV Movie
The Goalie's Anxiety at the Penalty Kick1972
Overload1972
Carlos1971TV Movie
Summer in the City1971as Robert Müller
Eine Rose für Jane1970TV Movie
Der Fall Lena Christ1970TV Movie as Robert Müller
Pakbo1970TV Movie as Robert Müller
Jonathan1970as Robert Müller
Alabama: 2000 Light Years from Home1969Short
Toets1968Short as Rob Müller
Ashes2014/VIShort
Nach grauen Tagen2004Short
Visions of Europe2004segment "Prologue"
Coffee and Cigarettes2003director of photography - segment "Twins"
Poem: I Set My Foot Upon the Air and It Carried Me2003segments "Gesang der Geister über den Wassern", "Nach grauen Tagen", "Der Schiffüchige"
24 Hour Party People2002director of photography - as Robby Muller
Carib's Leap2002Short
My Brother Tom2001
Dancer in the Dark2000director of photography
Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai1999
Shattered Image1998
The Tango Lesson1997as Robby Muller
Breaking the Waves1996
Al di l1995Wenders segment
Dead Man1995
Hoogste tijd1995
When Pigs Fly1993
Mad Dog and Glory1993director of photography
Until the End of the World1991
Red Hot and Blue1990TV Movie
Korczak1990
Aufzeichnungen zu Kleidern und Städten1989Documentary
Mystery Train1989director of photography
Coffee and Cigarettes II1989Short
Il piccolo diavolo1988
The Believers1987director of photography
Barfly1987
Down by Law1986director of photography
The Longshot1986director of photography
To Live and Die in L.A.1985director of photography - as Robby Muller
Finnegan Begin Again1985TV Movie
Body Rock1984
Paris, Texas1984director of photography
Tricheurs1984
Repo Man1984director of photography - as Robby Muller
Un dimanche de flic1983
Les îles1983
Klassen Feind1983
Een zwoele zomeravond1982
They All Laughed1981
Honeysuckle Rose1980
Opname1979
Saint Jack1979
Mysteries1978
Die linkshändige Frau1978
Die gläserne Zelle1978
The American Friend1977
The Wild Duck1976
Kings of the Road1976
Es herrscht Ruhe im Land1976
Das Double1975TV Movie
Wrong Move1975
Wandas Paradies1975TV Movie
Perahim - die zweite Chance1974
Ein bißchen Liebe1974

Camera Department

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Buena Vista Social Club1999Documentary director of photography: Amsterdam crew
The Longshot1986camera operator
Ich bin ein Elefant, Madame1969assistant camera
Liebe und so weiter1968assistant camera
To Grab the Ring1968assistant camera
Het gangstermeisje1966assistant camera
Een ochtend van zes weken1966assistant camera
Een zondag op het eiland van de Grande Jatte1965Short assistant camera

Actor

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Tricheurs1984Ingénieur
Saint Jack1979Robby (uncredited)

Thanks

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Tranceformer - A Portrait of Lars von Trier1997Documentary special thanks

Self

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Von einem der auszog - Wim Wenders' frühe Jahre2007DocumentaryHimself
Don't Try This at Home: Von Dogma bis Dogville2006DocumentaryHimself
Robby Müller on 'Down by Law'2002Video documentary shortHimself
Foot on the Moon1999DocumentaryHimself
De domeinen Ditvoorst1992Documentary
Filmreview1992TV SeriesHimself

Archive Footage

TitleYearStatusCharacter
Counterfeit World: Making 'To Live and Die in L.A.'2003Video documentary shortHimself

Won Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2013International AwardAmerican Society of Cinematographers, USA
2006Lifetime Achievement AwardCamerimage
2005Honorary AwardGerman Camera Award
2003Marburg Camera AwardMarburg Camera Award
2002Special Golden Camera 300Brothers Manaki International Film FestivalFor exceptional contribution to the world film art.
2002Best Artistic ContributionVerona Love Screens Film FestivalMy Brother Tom (2001)
1998Special AwardCamerimageBest Independent Duo: Director - Cinematographer
1997NSFC AwardNational Society of Film Critics Awards, USABest CinematographyBreaking the Waves (1996)
1997RobertRobert FestivalBest Cinematography (Årets fotografering)Breaking the Waves (1996)
1996NYFCC AwardNew York Film Critics Circle AwardsBest CinematographerBreaking the Waves (1996)
1991Film Award in GoldGerman Film AwardsBest Cinematography (Beste Kamera/Bildgestaltung)Korczak (1990)
1985Bavarian Film AwardBavarian Film AwardsBest Cinematography (Kamerapreis)Paris, Texas (1984)
1984German Camera AwardGerman Camera AwardFeature Film (Spielfilm)Paris, Texas (1984)
1983Film Award in GoldGerman Film AwardsBest Cinematography (Beste Kamera/Bildgestaltung)Klassen Feind (1983)
1975Film Award in GoldGerman Film AwardsBest Cinematography (Beste Kamera/Bildgestaltung)Falsche Bewegung (1975)

Nominated Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
2001RobertRobert FestivalBest Cinematography (Årets fotografering)Dancer in the Dark (2000)
2000Golden FrogCamerimageDancer in the Dark (2000)
1999Golden FrogCamerimageGhost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
1997CFCA AwardChicago Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyDead Man (1995)
1997Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest CinematographyDead Man (1995)
1997Golden Satellite AwardSatellite AwardsBest CinematographyBreaking the Waves (1996)
1996Golden FrogCamerimageBreaking the Waves (1996)
1990Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest CinematographyMystery Train (1989)
1988Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest CinematographyBarfly (1987)
1987Independent Spirit AwardIndependent Spirit AwardsBest CinematographyDown by Law (1986)

2nd Place Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1996BSFC AwardBoston Society of Film Critics AwardsBest CinematographyBreaking the Waves (1996)
1987NSFC AwardNational Society of Film Critics Awards, USABest CinematographyDown by Law (1986)
1984LAFCA AwardLos Angeles Film Critics Association AwardsBest CinematographyRepo Man (1984)

3rd Place Awards

YearAwardCeremonyNominationMovie
1977NSFC AwardNational Society of Film Critics Awards, USABest CinematographyDer Amerikanischer Freund (1977)

Known for movies

Cinematographer

Dancer in the Dark (2000)
as Cinematographer

Cinematographer

Breaking the Waves (1996)
as Cinematographer

Cinematographer

Dead Man (1995)
as Cinematographer

Cinematographer

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
as Cinematographer

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