Occupation: Film Cinematographer Birth: June 27, 1959
You can't really micro-manage. You'll never make the movie in 52 days, if you micro-manage. If you do that, you take the creativity away from people ….
I just directed another picture called 'American Dream' with Nick Stahl. Just finished shooting principal photography right before I started ['Lincol….
Really fantastic film, 'Munich'. So yeah, if I would say, what's the most underappreciated film, I think 'Munich' would be the one..
Occasionally I do movies with other directors. I did 'The Diving Bell and the Butterfly' for Julian Schnabel. I did a movie with Jim Brooks ('How Do ….
I had very little involvement with 'TinTin'. Very little involvement. So I can't really elaborate on that either..
["War Horse"] does have action as well, but we allow the audience to appreciate the environment where these characters are from because the lens shap….
I do like 'Munich'.It's a really wonderful film. I mean, there's 'Schindler's List', there's 'Saving Private Ryan'. But 'Munich' - of all the other f….
['American Dream' will be released] probably never.Never in the United States because there's no room for independent cinema..
[I] love 'Munich', man. That's a very underappreciated film..
We exchanged a couple of ideas and stuff like that, but that's about it. I just think ... consulting on 'Tintin' was very interesting because you try….
'Sugarland Express' was pretty amazing..
[Steven Spielberg makes] human movies. Movies [...] that reflect the life we wish it would be, not necessarily as it is. And the happy ending, you kn….
We have not looked at any particular movies [in creating War Horse], but again, it's hard not to see the similarities between those movies [because o….
Very few people make exterior movies anymore. It's always action films driven by action and quick editing..
[ 'American Dream' ] probably will [go] somewhere in Europe. You get 3000 entries [to] Sundance, and how many movies get [screened]? So, I'm a realis….
The greatest directors are the greatest users. They use people's talents to tell the story that they want to tell..
It would be horrible to be micro-managed! I don't think directors can really micro-manage people. It's just impossible..
[Spielberg] surrounds himself with great crew members who are at the top of their game and know their stuff. He motivates us by liking what we do, an….
These days, you'd probably shoot it in the daylight and manipulate it in the post. That's [how] most people would do it. [I did the same thing with] ….
[There, in War Horse] very little CGI. What happened there - because the horse was running very close to the trench, we had a rider. So in few instan….
I like the ending of the movie [War Horse], simply because it's such a demanding scene emotionally, and yet [the look] is all done on camera. I like ….