Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.

Grips and electricians have done more to help me shoot good movies than any other craft.

I wasn't trying to be different; I just did what I liked. Don't misunderstand when I say I really had no particular DP I was aspiring to be. I really fell in love with the movies as I was growing up, and I must say, I was emulating things that I saw others doing, that’s how you learn, but you soon have to push past that, and do things that you feel are right… or better.

Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to that style of moviemaking. You have to know how to cut before you can shoot well. The lack of definition in movies today is appalling. Very few people know how to mount a narrative anymore. If a scene works in one cut, you don't need 10. Or it might need 10. Let's not make it 20.

A huge problem in movies or with people who work on movies is that two people can look at the same thing but they don't necessarily see the same thing.

Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.