A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve.

The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual.

You are here to feel the joy of life by empowering, enabling, enlightening humanity so that humanity may find its own joy.

Hubris calls for nemesis, and in one form or another it's going to get it, not as a punishment from outside but as the completion of a pattern already started.

I would rather love and have my heart broken than never have had the feeling of love at all. Without love, what would you live for?

What's the subject of life - to get rich? All of those fellows out there getting rich could be dancing around the real subject of life.

There's always been something deeply disturbing about the Abbott government's attitude to women.

Trust in the great American ingenuity. We can derive more intelligent, more brain-friendly ways we can play football.

We're living in a time where we all got to stay woke !

Thousands of legal and illegal immigrants staged what they called a Day Without Immigrants. Or, as it's known in Utah, Monday.

Heaven, in the production of things, is sure to be bountiful to them, according to their qualities. Hence the tree that is flourishing, it nourishes, while that which is ready to fall, it overthrows.

Leave your thoughtlessness behind you then you may begin to understand. Clear the emptiness around you with the waving of your hand.