Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

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.

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.

Few persons realize how much of their happiness such as it is is dependent upon their work.

My wife and I just celebrated our twelfth anniversary. I'm Catholic so there's no real possibility of divorce. I'm Irish - so there is the possibility of murder.

A right election can only be made by those who have knowledge.

It's better to be happy doing something you love, even if you don't find success right away.

We landed, in fact, parallel to a canal, like there were two runways: one for us and one for waterfowl.

All of the directors I've worked with I have loved and would work with again. I have no favorites.

In church, sacred music would make believers of us all — but preachers can be counted on to restore the balance.

Don't wait to forgive until you feel like forgiving; you will never get there. Feelings take time to heal after the choice to forgive is made.

The folly of others is ever most ridiculous to those who are themselves most foolish.

Never assume that you're stuck with the way things are. Life changes, and so can you.