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.

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

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.

I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not.

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.

The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does on film.