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.

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.

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.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

The only way your dream will never come true is if you choose not to listen to it.

I never see the color of a person. I never notice the color of their eyes. But the thing that always gets my attention. Is when the spout out lies

Sometimes I get so bold and I'm so confident about what I'm doing that I actually try to be more of a dork because it's a really liberating feeling to experience what it's like to not care.

Any artist who has that quality of timelessness has that quality because they tell the truth.

A nod is as good as a wink to a blind badger.

Love is the law of life.

Ah! I shall repeat it endlessly, the only misfortune is to be born!

Love has no resistance. Whatever we do is because we want to do it.

When I see my opponent, I begin to shake uncontrollably. Once he hits me, I think to myself, you just hit Wanderlei Silva, how dare you hit Wanderlei Silva. Then I try to kill them.