There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination. They look, but they don't see.

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly.

A huge problem in movies or with people who work on movies is that two people can look at the same thing but they don't necessarily see the same thing.

If only I could freeze this moment, this feeling, because right now, nothing else mattered. I was f***ing flying.

Dance Like A Pronunciation

How could you possibly stop the apocalypse when I'm atomic bombin' the populace?

At age fourteen I was asking questions. When the answers failed to satisfy me, I searched elsewhere for different answers and found wisdom in atheism. And I am far from alone in that experience.

You don't need to win every medal to be successful.

You have to stand up for some things in this world.

Never presume that just because you disagree with an idea that you must be correct.

God transforms, so to speak, this air into words, into various sounds. He makes you understand these various sounds through the modifications by which you are affected.

I don't think that bravery is about skin. Bravery is about a willingness to show emotional need.

All truths are erroneous. This is the very essence of the dialectical process: today's truths become errors tomorrow; there is no final number.