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.

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 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.

The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world.

Virtue has its own reward but no sale at the box office.

Young lawyers attend the courts, not because they have business there, but because they have no business.

Narcissus is the glory of his race: For who does nothing with a better grace?.

If there is one basic element in our Constitution, it is civilian control of the military.

The artist, day by day, by postulating the new realities of the future, accomplishes peaceful revolution.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

Annabeth pressed her lips to Percy’s ear. “I love you.” She wasn’t sure he could hear her—but if they died, she wanted those to be her last words.

The motto of Harvard isn't 'nice,' it's truth. The motto of Yale isn't 'light and nice,' it's light and truth.