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I really like to work with people who know a lot, but they also give me space so I can add something to the movie.

There are many, many different kinds of movies and directors and styles. I don't mind that a movie looks like a movie.

I am actually retired - yes, I am retired. But I like to work. So I'm retired until someone calls me up to work.

As an actor, Sean [Penn] is brilliant. And he's really an excellent director, as well. We got along really well.

I don't know the American photographers as well, but I admit I love Ansel Adams. His landscapes are so crisp.

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

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

There is something more to "reality" than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.

Spielberg was very young and starting up when we did Sugarland Express and I loved that, but the main thing was that I really loved his talent.

I hope that film is going to stay as an artform and that people won't forget that there are good movies also to be made.

I should mention Vittorio Storaro, who was Bernardo Bertolucci's cinematographer. You watch those films and they are exceptional.

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

I think too many film students in America are losing the artistry and not learning lighting the right way.

I think that film is still an artform and it doesn't really matter if you're using a digital camera or a film camera.

You can't just stick with what you know, you have to evolve.

If you use hand-held techniques just to make the film stylish I think it's wrong.

For me, movies should be visual. If you want dialogue, you should read a book.

Sometimes the shots serve as homages to other movies and other directors, like Hitchcock.

I love to make movies about young people - young scientists that are inventing things and all the writing they did was very funny and very true.

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

I don't like to be in front of the camera - my place is behind the camera.

I am not against digital at all.