There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.

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.

One Need activates hundreds of Desires. Find long lasting happiness and fulfillment by knowing your Personality Needs instead of following your desires.

Sometimes I think the one form of experience people are incapable of learning from is the political experience.

His allure, as he stood there, his face, even with the red swollen eyes, everything about him was gorgeous.

Words. Borne on the ever swelling current of hatred, like flowers opening in the current, petals peeling back, then falling apart.

the whole world is caught in her glance and at last the universe is magnificent.

I don't watch TV, so I feel like I'm left out of the American fabric or something.

I don't write in Portuguese. I write myself.

Strike the enemy's settlements, turn them into dust, pave the Arab roads with the skulls of Jews.

Leadership is not a rank or a position, it is a choice - a choice to look after the person to the left of us & the person to the right of us.

Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.