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"When I started in the late 1950s, every film I made - no matter how low the budget - got a theatrical release. Today, less that 20-percent of our films get a theatrical release."
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"You get to the middle of a take that's going really well and the camera will run out of film. They have to stop you, apologize and then you've got to get things going all over again."
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"I do enjoy film. The more I do it the more I learn."
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"When I'm shooting a film, I don't look at playback. I don't go and do a scene and then hurry up and watch what I just did. I never look at it so I haven't seen any of it."
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"Truffaut loved actresses, and he was very intense. All the actresses I knew wanted to do a film with him."
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"But the process of making a film is not glamorous. Certainly not my films."
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"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."
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"The many many imponderables come together when a film opens and for all sorts of reasons it may or may not succeed."
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"I'm not interested in a film about golf but I am interested in golf as a metaphor."
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"When I finish a film, I put it away and I never look at it again."
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"That's why I like fast film. It gives you more freedom to light more naturally."
Film
"My peers say I have made a difference. That means more to me than winning an Oscar."
Winning
"My first semester, I got a D in creative writing."
Writing
"Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem."
Music
"There are infinite shadings of light and shadows and colors... it's an extraordinarily subtle language. Figuring out how to speak that language is a lifetime job."
Colors
"But at heart, I am more than a cinematographer."
Heart
"In aptitude tests, I scored highest in music."
Music
"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
Music
"I can still recall the thrill of shooting my first film."
Film
"But you know you haven't done it all because you know everything keeps evolving and changing; and you know you can evolve with it if you grow and develop as a human being."
Being
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