I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.

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.

'The Amazing Race' has always been the gold standard of reality television to me. It's smart, it's funny, and it's entertaining as hell.

I only speak a little pigeon French. Just enough to get by with the little French pigeons.

I'll hear a song I love and suddenly I'm isolated from everything around me just for a nanosecond. That's a moment between a moment.

I love collaborating.

I got girls that can cook, I got girls that can clean, I got girls that'll do anything between.

The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

I don't just come from a musical family, but from a musical community.

The child is essentially alien to this society of men and might express his position in the words of the Gospel: My kingdom is not of this world

Treat your mind like your money, don't waste it.

To me you are stardust sprinkled across a night sky, forever in my dreams, but out of my reach.