These days that wouldn't happen - waiting for the light to be exactly right. Because it takes time and time is money. And with these big productions with expensive actors, you just don't have the time to get every shot exactly right.

The best way to know when there's good lighting is when you don't notice it.

There are a lot of directors out there that don't like to deal with actors, I think. Many of them have said something like, in the future they will actually manipulate the actors on their computers. But don't believe all this.

There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

I had never met Woody Allen before Melinda and Melinda. My agent knew the producer of the movie and he suggested that we would work well together and then we did. We had a great time on that film.