It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

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.

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

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.

Be fearless like a newborn that is born with love and hope.

A choice of pains. That's what living was all about.

If I can do things right, I don't see why everyone else can't.

What does being a woman today mean? Is there a right way of doing it? Is there a wrong way of doing it? Different kinds of women, female friendships: It's all pretty funny, and worth making fun of.

I came from a childhood where I spent a lot of time alone and a lot of time just living with my imagination, and a certain amount of the adult world was kind of alienating.

We're constantly striving for success, fame and comfort when all we really need to be happy is someone or some thing to be enthusiastic about.

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

I call myself a blind man riding on a blind tiger.

I'm a good woman for a bad man.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.