 But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being. |
| You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward. |
| I saw Tequila Sunrise as a romantic picture with complex, bigger than life characters. |
| The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away. |
| You have to understand the nature of light. |
| I hope I'm still shooting when I'm 80. |
| I realize that every picture isn't a work of art. |
| I want to tell a story and shape it all the way through to the end. |
| Billions of people have seen and been influenced by movies in the short history of this industry. |
| Painting and writing are solitary arts. |
| There is a kind of beauty in imperfection. |
| It is also difficult to articulate the subtleties in cinema, because there aren't words or metaphors which describe many of the emotions you are attempting to evoke. |
| In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music. |
| Photography is a very important part of my life. |
| Every cinematographer I worked with had his own way of solving problems. |
| With today's fast films, you can light the way your eye sees the scene. You can abuse the film and create subtleties in contrast with light and exposure, diffusion and filters. That's what makes it an art. |
| It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows. |
| I think one of the reasons people quit is because they're afraid they won't be able to get better and better; that they have to come to a zenith of some kind. |
| Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language. |
| The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are. |
