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 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 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.

There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

I spend one evening with a handsome merman, and I become a silly mermaid with a crush.

Like a battery, the human mind and body must be fully discharged to stretch their capacity.

In this culture, cultivating unconditional self-acceptance truly is radical.

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.

I have a temperament where I know how to win. Hillary Clinton doesn't know how to win.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

Even though [bullying] doesn't actually raise your stature, it might make you feel that way.

Books are often far more than just books.

Irish readers, British readers, American readers: is it odd that I haven't a clue about how differently they react? Or better say, I cannot find the words to describe my hunch about them.

Drummers are conductors - we set the pace for the music - so if you're not relaxed and feeling right, the whole thing goes out the window.