To me if there's an achievement to lighting and photography in a film it's because nothing stands out, it all works as a piece. And you feel that the….

I thought that was a pretty stupid argument, really, because it's the final product that matters. The look of the film, however it's done, is still t….

If reviewers don't mention your work, it's probably better than if they do..

Every shot I have ever made has been a compromise in some way. No image has ever been as good as the one I envisioned in my mind's eye..

Someone said to me, early on in film school... if you can photograph the human face you can photograph anything, because that is the most difficult a….

If I am creating the shots from scratch I may have to spend more time holding the directors hand and therefore have less time to finesse the shot or ….

The balance of the frame - the way an actor is relating to the space in the frame - is the most important factor in helping the audience feel what th….

When you move the camera, or you do a shot like the crane down (in Shawshank) with them standing on the edge of the roof, then it's got to mean somet….

I do miss the idea of the crew getting together to watch dailies after work. I will usually get selected dailies printed on film especially for the e….

Partly why I love to operate is that I love to watch an actor within a shot. When you watch a shot, and you know that everything's come together, I f….

I don't really believe in the mystery of cinematography - what happens in the camera is what the cinematographers create and all that nonsense..

There's nothing worse than an ostentatious shot or some lighting that draws attention to itself, and you might go, 'Oh, wow, that's spectacular.' Or ….

Am I nostalgic for film? … I mean, it’s had a good run, hasn’t it? You know, I’m not nostalgic for a technology. I’m nostalgic for the kind of films ….

Maybe that sounds a bit pretentious, but I think life experience is always more important than technical knowledge..

When I first started, I saw myself shooting documentaries or making documentaries, which is what I did, mostly, for a number of years. So it was quit….

There are some sequences in films that I think work filmicly, that stand out to me, but thats much more to do with the staging and the cutting and th….

Your whole life informs your eye..

I never really considered film as a career, but I knew I didn't want to be a builder. So I went to art college, and it just gradually happened..

All I’ve ever wanted to do is take stills of people, or take documentaries about people, and try to express to an audience how somebody lives next do….

You can’t learn your craft by copying me or anyone else. I hope what I do can do is in some way inspire others but I would be appalled if I thought m….

I think of filmmaking as a form of communication. Maybe it's also an art, but that's for somebody else to decide..