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.

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.

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.

There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

The point of therapy is get unhooked not to thrash around on how you got hooked.

Nonintervention does not mean that nothing happens. It means that something else happens.

I'll see you later, he says, and as he does, he runs his finger briefly over my wrist. It passes over me like air, and makes me shiver like a kiss.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

Such to me is the new image of aging; growth in self, and service for all mankind.

A good poet feels what his community feels. Like if you stub your toe, the rest of your body hurts.

I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.

I started college Pre-Med. That lasted about half a semester.

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

Everything unknown is magnified. [Lat., Omne ignotum pro magnifico est.]