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.

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.

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.

No matter how meaningless you may think that your life is, there are some people out there who would love to be in your position. Be grateful with your life while pushing for more blessings.

Those who in principle oppose birth control are either incapable of arithmetic or else in favour of war, pestilence and famine as permanent features of human life.

That man does not possess his estate, but his estate possesses him.

Thankfulness is the tune of angels.

I use high velocity to keep hitters off balance.

On network TV, I'm still Phoebe to people, and it would be hard to convince them otherwise in the bright lights of a sitcom.

Like people, a picture has a skeleton, muscles and skin.

I am fairly classless because it is very difficult to class someone who comes from a mixed marriage.

I enjoy the fact that we have these mobile comics now, which are sort of a cross between a comic book and an animated cartoon.

The painter saw what was, an alternate Candor and secrecy inside the skin.