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

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

A good [film] director is talented, imaginative, and does his homework.

Some movies are what I would call murky. Just because it's murky doesn't make it artistic. It makes it hard to see.

With television, it's difficult to do some things. You have to shoot so many minutes a day, so you always have to be prepared or you won't be able to complete the number of pages that you have scheduled for that day.

We used hand-held cameras 50 years ago. It wasn't something new. Sometimes we used a tripod, or we'd have a tracking shot, and sometimes - like when a character was being chased - we used a hand-held camera because it was right for the scene. In those cases, it helped the mood; it created immediacy and a feeling for the viewer that they were in the scene and in the moment.

I shot a lot of commercials and sometimes I enjoy the commercial shooting and sometimes I really hate it, but in thirty seconds or one minute, you can make some remarkable work shooting in one or two or three days.