I am not a fan of having too much gear.

Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult and most interesting thing to photograph.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.

Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what the character is thinking.

If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

Your whole life informs your eye.

I want a script to affect me in some way. I am usually drawn to character studies, scripts about real people and the world we live in not some fantasy.

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened.

The first exhibition [Publo Picasso] was organized by the communist party - because of his position during the war and all that.

All the roles are for boys. The girls' roles are either small or all the same. There's just nothing interesting.

In saying what is obvious, never choose cunning. Yelling works better.

God is all there is - God includes everything, all possibility and all action, for Spirit is the invisible essence and substance of all form.

Originality, then, ultimately distinguishes art from craft. We may say, therefore, that it is the yardstick of artistic greatness or importance.

While we cannot choose how we will die, we can always choose how we will live.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

Everything was quiet, a strange sort of quiet that felt like an unfinished sentence.

I really think that creating clothes and fashion has to be a statement about how we live and where we live and what's happening in the world.

I have found that children are the most open-minded of all my audiences. They are not set in their ways. They are open to ideas.