I am concerned that the subtlety is being lost and every film tends to look very contrasty and saturated.

Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what the character is thinking.

If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

I am not a fan of having too much gear.

Your whole life informs your eye.

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.

Let the one in least fear, lead.

In order to be successful, you have to make sure that being rejected doesn’t bother you at all.

If you associate with turkeys, you will never fly with the eagles.

Small wastebasket liners, $1.17 ... tall wastebasket liners, $2.29 ... garbage can liners, $3.98 ... I think I just spent $7.44 buying something I'm going to throw away.

The teams in the Bay Area have created a culture of winning, but the Cubs and Metsneed to learn how to win.

It would just be nice if everybody would be nice.

I think the wonderful thing about doing theater is that it's more of an actor's medium. I think that film is more of a director's medium. You can't edit something out on stage. It's there.

Often if you don't speak up, whatever you thought was stupid to say some man would say and then everyone would say 'as he said'.

The Hamptons are usually filled with what I had hoped to leave behind in New York City.

A language is not just a body of vocabulary or a set of grammatical rules. ... Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.