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

I encourage film students who are interested in cinematography to study sculpture, paintings, music, writing and other arts. Filmmaking consists of a….

When you are shooting a movie, you have to collaborate with many, many, many people. First of all, the director with all his own ideas and I can only….

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

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..

Each story has a different approach for me and I try to work with lighting that will tell you visually the story better than if it was shot in availa….

It's all about special effects and explosions now. It leaves me just cold when I walk out of the theater. There's no heart; there's no soul. Movies u….

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

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

I'm always looking in the lighting to tell the story in a different way than it actually looks in real life because it's, for me, more contrast somet….

If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without t….

I always try to tell the story the best possible way. I create the mood for each scene in a way that the audience feels that they are right there wit….

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

These days that wouldn't happen - waiting for the light to be exactly right. Because it takes time and time is money. And with these big productions ….

I think all cinematographers, at least most of them, would love to do everything on location because you cannot cheat on location. It's there, it's p….

There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call "poetic reality." That's something you see played out in film noir, where….

I think film is about images. Cinema needs good images. I think that if you don’t have good images, it’s not going to be a good film. I think all fil….

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

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..

I think that the audience should not be able to tell if it is real or not real - it should be an enhanced version of reality, or an artistic view of ….

I love the Dutch impressionists - Vermeer, Rembrandt. What they were able to do with light was astonishing. As for photographers, I think mostly of t….