When I do a still picture, I'm doing it all by myself with no help. I'm designing everything. I am my own art director. I'm doing everything. I'm directing, editing, whatever.

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.

I do not know what it was about that boy but just looking at him, even I wanted to clout him on the head. It was a head that invited violence.

But I know, somehow, that only when it is dark enough, can you see the stars.

It’s an old story, amigo mío. Be careful of those closest to you because they can do the most damage.

Nothing in this world is impossible to a willing heart.

Few of us know what we are capable of doing... we have never pushed ourselves hard enough to find out. Alfred

Can someone eat the fruit that comes from the tree of action that grows from the seeds of your mind?

A person's mere propinquity to others independently suspected of criminal activity does not give rise to probable cause to search that person.

You can't become legendary if you have no energy.

I do not know of any salvation for society except through eccentrics, misfits, dissenters, people who protest.

The goal is not to add years to your life, but to add life to your years