Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be applied at that moment in a film, but your craft isn't structured around such things, except in beer commercials.
Gordon WillisI don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't want that much romancing. I don't want them to call me up at two in the morning saying, 'I don't know who I am.
Gordon WillisIf you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that itโs accessible to everybody, and donโt get simple mixed up with simplistic, itโs how you mount and present something that makes it engaging.
Gordon WillisA cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.
Gordon Willis