I see an incredible abuse of close-ups in many films these days. Why is that?

- Emmanuel Lubezki

Instead of trying to modify what nature brought us, we embraced it.

- Emmanuel Lubezki

The language of film is further and further away from the language of theater, and is closer to music. It’s abstract but still narrative. Everything …

- Emmanuel Lubezki

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what…

- Emmanuel Lubezki

If I'm collaborating with an artist I like to give them my point of view and if they don't want to take any of my recommendations it's fine, but it's…

- Emmanuel Lubezki

What you don't want is to repeat a formula over and over or impose a formula to a movie that...when you impose yourself and you impose a formula and …

- Emmanuel Lubezki