I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera.

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.

Every time my dreams threaten to become reality, something always happens and I end up alone.

There is no such thing as failure

My dream has come true. I play with the great players and on a great team. I'm smiling and happy and enjoying the time of my life.

I am just the classic person who wants to learn stuff. I want good tutors, and with Kurt I had the best.

the present is the merest flicker between the long long time past and the things that haven't yet happened but most assuredly will.

Most people think of death as the end, when in fact, death can be the beginning.

Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions

Being a rockstar is the intersection of who you are and who you want to be.

It's like most anything. If you want to be a loser, there's always a way to dwell on the negative. If you want to win, there's always a way to think positively.

I really have a secret satisfaction in being considered rather mad.