I 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 WillisZooms are lazy closeups. And too many people hang their hats on video assist; it's a way to avoid too much. Video assist helps people dissociate from the scene that they are directing. Pretty soon the director will be directing all the way from his apartment.
Gordon Willis