The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

A huge problem in movies or with people who work on movies is that two people can look at the same thing but they don't necessarily see the same thing.

History is nothing if not far-fetched.

I come from a family of working professionals: my dad is a chartered accountant, and my mom is a professor.

Give a civil servant a good case and he'll wreck it with clichés, bad punctuation, double negatives, and convoluted apology.

I'm pretty catholic about what constitutes science fiction.

Oh, and I heard a rumor that I died in a car accident. I didn’t.

The times change, and to the extent that comedy captures the spirit of the times, it will enjoy success.

I think sometimes, you have to pick your spots about when a game gets intense or when the game's outcome is pivoting in that moment.

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.

This is my destiny — I'm supposed to do this, dammit! Don't tell me what I can and can't do!

I would put myself towards left of center.