Occupation: Film Cinematographer Birth: February 6, 1922 Death: December 27, 2015
My mother let me know that we're all connected. If some of us become more affluent it's not because we're better or even smarter people - we have a r….
If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think that you are part of a system..
Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound questions about their own persona are not really able to enunciate it, because it's a combination….
The idea of accountability in Vietnam, Nicaragua and now Iraq - the media never has that in its quiver. When you see time after time there is no poss….
That force - which the system tried to laugh at - when it finally broke through and the movement was recognized, the media said they were "just a bun….
I think that the whole voyeuristic attitude of filmmakers or of me personally - of shooting documentaries and so forth - is an important issue. And i….
Now, I have to - in my defense, I have the say that general knowledge of the deadly nature of cigarettes was not primarily in my mind and nor was it ….
I felt that that experience, because of the responsible nature that I found I acted all during that traumatic time, that I felt that I was a man..
I was shooting all this time. And there was only one guy who helped to pull him. And I had to think whether I was going to keep shooting or help the ….
I rationalize out, well, how much help could you really be, you know? And maybe if people saw this, they'd realize the brutality of war and figure ou….
When I started, we had just the camera and the person, mostly. And if you wanted to do a dolly shot, particularly working in Chicago where I began, y….
Well, there is a contradiction in a sense. If you're making commercials which sell products which are unhealthy or which are unnecessary, I think tha….
I had a rope around my waist, and the rope was attached into the helicopter in case I fell off. And the shot was a shot that began with Kim Novak goi….
I don't know where you're reading all this stuff, but it's pretty accurate, yes. It was in 1942. I was on a ship called the Accelo(ph) coming back fr….
In "Virginia Woolf" I had a thing which the grips called the paraplegic which was a wheelchair thing that I had made up years before where I could st….
When I search myself carefully I do think it's from my mother. I even feel strange saying that. Most people, I believe, when they're asked profound q….
I think that it gave me a really strong feeling of my life force and a confidence in myself. I felt like I was a man. Before that point for some reas….
The helicopter was a U.S. Navy helicopter. There were no civilian helicopters available to film companies, so they just made some stuff out of two-by….
I've been in wars and in riots and hung out of many helicopters in the early days. And there's a detachment that happens when you look through the ca….
When you hear the word tear gas you think, well, your eyes will burn and that's it. But that whole feeling of your whole skin burning, that you can't….
I used it in a shot where Richard Burton goes down the hall to get a gun in a closet. And I wanted to get some excitement, and the hallway was too na….