Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

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.

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 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 Cause that caused a Fear need not appear again. There for not fear about Fear.

Web users ultimately want to get at data quickly and easily. They don't care as much about attractive sites and pretty design.

A modern revolutionary group heads for the television station, not the factory. It concentrates its energy on infiltrating and changing the image system.

I know when I should get good and when I should get bad.

I am a teacher because teaching allows me to observe the universe at work, that moment when wakefulness suddenly occurs.

As long as poverty, injustice and gross inequality persist in our world, none of us can truly rest.

Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.

A holy man is a mighty weapon in the hands of God.

Capitalistic Anarchism ? Oh, yes, if you choose to call it so. Names are indifferent to me; I am not afraid of bugaboos. Let it be so, then, capitalistic Anarchism.

The path of sorrow, and that path alone, leads to the land where sorrow is unknown.