With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art.

My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar.

The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are.

It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke.

Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems.

You have to understand the nature of light.

Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.