Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.

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.

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.

Be grateful enough to always thank God for all His blessings thus far before asking Him for more.

And to fight this beast of wrong is what I intend to do. To do otherwise is to sidestp this rabid injustice.

Not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng but in ourselves are triumph and defeat.

People like consistency. Whether it's a store or a restaurant, they want to come in and see what you are famous for.

I just go with what excites me.

The depth of revival will be determined exactly by the depth of the spirit of repentance.

I make mistakes; I'll be the second to admit it.

I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt even have a publisher, so my main worry was whether it was even going to see the light of day or not.

And it's possible to monetize your art without compromising the integrity of it for commerce.

Those who arrive at the end of the journey are not those who began.