I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

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

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

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.

Falling into true love, is not taking a rope to climb out

There is time for everything

Please don’t tell me, it was less painful than a broken backbone, a forgotten poem, a lost home.

Sickness is a belief which must be annihilated by the divine Mind.

We must never forget that higher knowledge has to do with revering truth and insight and not with revering people.

I like mainstream movies that are completely off the wall.

We want time in with our kids not time out.

I always am very aggressive and putting out much more than people would like, but that's the business I'm in.

Originality in art puts charm where it wasn't.

The more wishes you make, the more magnificent Fantasia will become.