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• When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge…
• To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as…
• There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's…
• I am not a fan of having too much gear.
• I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the film, however…
• Someone said to me, early on in film school if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that…
• The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most…
• Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge.
• Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a…
• Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the…
• I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide.
• All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an…

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