I love Woody Allen. He's very clever, always thinking, and he's great with actors. He lets actors do what they want to do and occasionally he'll give them a specific kind of direction.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I was really fortunate from the time I arrived in Hollywood to work with some of the greatest directors from the beginning. I worked with Robert Altman, John Boorman, and of course Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, Brian De Palma ... I couldn't pick one of them; they were all different, but they are all so talented.

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

I like to say that lighting is about taking the light away. I often like to use the shadows more than the light.

There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood.

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