I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

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

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.

Fate always found its mark, one way or another.

Excellence in any pursuit is the late ripe fruit of toil.

Children learn to smile from their parents.

I am trying to show the world that we are all human beings and that color is not important. What is important is the quality of our work.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

I think the stress of having to continue to fight the fight day in and day out, whatever it is, that which keeps you driving. You can get to a place where you no longer want to do that.

I got the Rolly on my arm and I'm pouring Chandon And I roll the best weed cause I got it going on.

The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.

You don't have to be sick to get better! You don't have to have a bad attitude to get a better one.

The diplomacy of the present administration has sought to respond to the modern idea of commercial intercourse. This policy has been characterized as substituting dollars for bullets.