In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music.

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.

The mind is the greatest sacred paradise.

Dream, desire, and then dare to discover.

You are not a biomass, you were not born only to be like a bush or tree, just to marry, reproduce and die

I learned to cope with my needs for attention by creating my own private personal rituals to make myself feel special.

The things I carry closest to my heart are things I can't own.

You can only expand your capacities by working to the very limit

True compassion is more than throwing a coin to a beggar. It demands of our humanity that if we live in a society that produces beggars, we are morally commanded to restructure that society.

The real threat to world stability is not too much American power. It is too little American power.

I'd rather die believing than live doubting

The prize of all too precious you.