Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.
The crude real will not by itself yield truth.
Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.
Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.
For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.
Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.