Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

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

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.

A culture is made — or destroyed — by its articulate voices.

Memories that you remember are Truth of your life .....

Some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

You don't run a business hoping you don't have a recession.

Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.

I don't want to end up losing my soul.

I'm so far gone that I'm telling the truth. It sounds like a foreign language.

[It is] the most hideous waterfront structure ever inflicted on a city by a combination of architectural conceit and official bad taste. the Cathedral of Asphalt.

I haven't forgotten what it was like to be a kid; especially a misunderstood one

To boldly go where no one has gone before