There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.

I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve.

The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

As the cinematographer is usually more visual than the director is and full cooperation is really the answer and to make a great film, you need a good director and you need a good cinematographer.

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment.

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast sometimes has to mean it's softer than normal.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all films should be really visual.

Thus went my first Court Day.I think I'm going to puke.

What is the hardest, but best thing in life? Love <3

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.

You can't hold me to the same standard as the president or a school teacher. I'm just a comedian. My job is like Archie Bunker.

Funny, that no matter where you are in the world, there's always someone eager to help you destroy yourself.

I know what I want to get down and I haven't got much time to do it in.

I was definitely born a dreamer. I could never sit still, and I can't now.

Shame on all eloquence which leaves us with a taste for itself and not for its substance.

In Japanese houses the interior melts into the gardens of the outside world.

There is nothing stronger than human prejudice.