You are always a student, never a master. You have to keep moving forward.
Dad, wherever you are, you are gone but you will never be forgotten.
Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.
Every once in a while, when the audience is expecting to see one thing, you have to show them something else.
I don’t think of myself as a director or writer. I think of myself as a filmmaker.
Contrast is what makes photography interesting.
Photography is a very important part of my life.
It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery.
The audience has to understand that if the film is going to have any meaning for them. If they are going to empathize with the characters, they have to visualize the process of concentration involved in making every move.
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.
The sun is the most parallel light source because it is so far away.