I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

Real Canada is where people wear sweaters for survival, not style.

I was in kidney failure. I ended up having a kidney transplant on my 21st birthday.

When humanity measures wealth by love, truth and wisdom we will all be rich.

The most difficult challenge that Governments have faced since the dinosaurs roamed the earth.

How can I be secure? Through amassing wealth beyond all measure? No. And what's beyond measure? That's a sickness. That's a trap. There is no measure. Only greed.

If you are hurt, whether in mind or body, don't nurse your bruises. Get up, and light-heartedly, courageously, good-temperedly, get ready for the next encounter.

For the skeptic there remains only one consolation: if there should be such a thing as superhuman law it is administered with subhuman inefficiency.

It's my belief we developed language because of our deep inner need to complain.

Unfortunately, there are no mulligans when it comes to pro football contracts.

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.