I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

A huge problem in movies or with people who work on movies is that two people can look at the same thing but they don't necessarily see the same thing.

I would never let anyone else borrow my heart if I know there’s a chance in hell you might want it back.

Parenthood doesn’t improve one’s character, it exposes it.

If we can really understand the problem the answer will come out of it because the answer is not separate from the problem.

[s]he was a compulsive pessimist, always looking for the soft brown spot in the fruit, pressing so hard she created it.

I wondered why she craved this knowledge and found myself remembering that she was, after all, an anthropologist.

I like to think that one of things I've done with non-fiction since the very beginning is to find new ways of telling true stories.

Inspiration is enough to give expression to the tone in singing, especially when the song is without words.

Say, for example, you develop the ability to make parking meters disappear. It's probably easier to put a quarter in it. That would be the wisdom on the subject.

The way I see it, the longer I live here the less of a choice you will all have not to hire me for plays.

I like to look at a tree and see that it's love. Don't you?