The thing about film is that your eye is selective. Film isn't. You have to make film do what you want. Simply photographing something doesn't do it. You have to know how to apply light and know what it does… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Good films are not made by accident, nor is good photography. You can have good things happen, on occasion, by accident that can be… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I hate when somebody says, "This may not work." You'll never get anywhere with that. I've pushed a lot of people out of my… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I don't really like directing. I've had a good relationship with actors, but I can do what I do and back off. I don't… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
The lack of perfection, that's the hardest quality of all, because you're fighting your instincts. You're trained to want to do things perfectly. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
A huge problem in movies or with people who work on movies is that two people can look at the same thing but they… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
If you take a sophisticated idea, reduce it to the simplest possible terms so that it’s accessible to everybody, and don’t get simple mixed… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I don't believe in doing thousands of cuts, then giving it to the editor to make the movie. 'Dump-truck directing' is my reference to… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
There are a lot of cameramen but not so many photographers. And a lot of cameramen attack from a technical approach without much imagination.… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
A cinematographer is a visual psychiatrist - moving an audience through a movie ... making them think the way you want them to think,… — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
I'm a minimalist. I see things in simple ways...It's human nature to define complexity as better. Well, it's not. — Gordon Willis Copy Share Image
