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

Don't get simple mixed up with simplistic.

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.

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.

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

A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist, moving an audience... making them think the way you want them to think, painting pictures in the dark.

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.