If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do.

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

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.

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.

Complaining or picketing will not solve a problem but understanding will.

If you do nothing, you’ll have nothing. If you do something spectacular, you will have something spectacular.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Man's laws cannot make moral what God has declared immoral

A human head looks the least scary when it is attached.

We often say God is never late, but generally He isn’t early either. Why? Because He uses times of waiting to stretch our faith in Him and to bring about change and growth in our lives.

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place.

I had always sung in my dad's shop. I worked there after school, and I'd be singing along with the top-40 records of the day.

One reason why so many Christians today don't know the Old Testament is because their 'gospel' doesn't even need it.