I was very happy sitting alone at a dining room table, writing a script.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.

You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.

Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.

It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.

There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.

Contrast is what makes photography interesting.

But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer.

It took a while for me to grasp that my colleagues believe I have made an impact on the history of cinema.

When it begins, where it goes how it ends...It all comes down to you.

An historic institution, which never went right, is really quite much of a miracle as an institution that cannot go wrong.

Is it a lucky break if you get run over by an ambulance?

The sublimity of wisdom is to do those things living, which are to be desired when dying.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon.

And then there was him, the long and painful love of her life.

The only way a show works is you find people who you think are qualified and talented and you give them a chance to do what they do.

Without armaments peace cannot be kept; wars are waged not only to repel injustice but also to establish a firm peace.

I don't want a government shutdown. I don't think anyone does.