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

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.

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.

I am not a fan of having too much gear.

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 reaction of whatever you do will continue punishing you (hold you accountable). I do not have to come to punish you, ” says God.

If you want to win the heart of a person, first win the perception

Character is less about what we do wrong And All about what we make right....

Peace rules the day where reason rules the mind.

I think the average American recognizes that it took years to create the crisis that erupted in 2008 and peaked in January of 2009. And it's going to take some time to work through it.

If your gonna go down, go down swinging!

I fear only God, all praises to Him.

When people start dancing, they dance like they don't know they are doing it.

So eager to die are you? (Zakar) Not particularly, but I’d rather go down clubbing Kessar than from boredom. (Kat)