For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve.

The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual.

There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

Giver of life, the Holy God.

Never build after you are five and forty have five years' income in hand before you lay a brick and always calculate the expense at double the estimate.

Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.

Put one dumb foot in front of the other and course-correct as you go.

Most artists probably feel lonely or set apart in childhood. But they grow up and find people who share their interests.

Authors must not, like Chinese soldiers, expect to win victories by turning somersets in the air.

My experience as a young actor on network television was that I couldn't make it work. I was drowning as an actor.

The team you build is the company you build.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

Wise are they who have learned these truths: Trouble is temporary. Time is tonic. Tribulation is a test tube.