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

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

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.

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

God save me from fools with a little philosophy—no one is more difficult to reach.

When I look at you as if you're crazy it's not that I judge you for your insanity.

What I can do, I will do. What I can't do, I will surrender to the one that can.

A day without someone to hold you or a day without someone to share, is a day easily forgotten.’ - Vera Richardson in Mr Alhourani's Dead Man's Spots

I can be bought, but not bored.

Afraid? Of whom am I afraid? Not death. For who is he?

I hate the beach - I'm a mountain guy. I'd much rather face a bear than a shark.

I really do hate to sing.

Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.