I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

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.

Creating the abundant life is achieved first by vision not sight.

Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it

Faith is not something to grasp it is a state to grow into.

You can't function in society if you don't involve yourself in the fictions society accepts about time. But you do so with the understanding that you're playing a game.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

It was built against the will of the immortal gods, and so it did not last for long.

No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.

Hell hath no fury like a woman cheated out of a million dollars.

Material wealth is either a window through which we see God or a mirror in which we see ourselves.