I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye.

I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the early part of a shoot as HD dailies really don't tell me much photographically.

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.

Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I feel I'm the first person watching it. I always get pleasure out of that.

To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that these actors are in this situation and the audience is not thrown by a pretty picture or by bad lighting.

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense.