Manipulating shadows and tonality is like writing music or a poem.

It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows.

My first semester, I got a D in creative writing.

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.

Painting and writing are solitary arts.

Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language.