I like engineering, but I love the creative input.

I had done a lot of rock 'n' roll photography when I was in college. I was one of many photographers who worked for The Doors, Jefferson Airplane, and all of these rock 'n' roll bands.

George Lucas wanted this moving camera for all of the photography in Star Wars. He was willing to take a risk with the concepts that I advanced with regard to ways for doing that.

I was involved in the color correction and the digital color correction. In an odd way, you end up making a film many times-the DVD, the archival record of a high-definition master, and so on.

I think that era of mechanically figuring out of how to bring a particular evocative image to the screen was a really important part of my education.

It's easy to create something that has a lot of luster, but it's very hard to make something that has a lot of depth.

Boy, am I glad there wasn't a fourth episode of Lord of the Rings.

If you understand how the real world feels and looks and sounds it is much easier to create a virtual version of the real world.

If you can imagine it, we can make it.

Even if times are tough and you're enduring a terrible heartache, it's important to focus your anger on a vibrator, not another person.

And as always seems to happen when I have reached the point where I am ready to take decisive action, everything began to happen at once.

The paradox is that when resistance is fully accepted, the resistance disappears.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Life is a storeroom filled with boxes, some empty, some misplaced forever. We're what remains, what we've grabbed hold of.

There is so much power at your fingertips! Use it!

The state, the state apparatus, is not an abstraction.

Making an average pitch to average people, or having an average gala for average people isn't going to scale anymore. You've got to find the people who care. Those people are worth all of your time.

When grace combines with wrinkles, it is admirable. There is an indescribable light of dawn about intensely happy old age. . . . The young person is handsome, but the old, superb.

If you want to accomplish something, you must first expect it of yourself.