I didn't shoot anybody, no sir . . . I'm just a patsy.
I'm so drawn to photography because you can convey a complex story in a single frame.
If someone is trying to frame you, don't you want to know who, what, when, where and why?
I'm always secretly the most pleased when a show just really, really looks good and when my camera guys are really happy with the images they got.
Movies are a voyeuristic experience. You have to make the audience feel like they are peeking through a keyhole. I think of myself as the audience. Then I use light, framing, and motion to create a focal point.
Photography is like fencing. You must keep your distance, wait, and then thrust.
[In a political contest,] the first guy who defines the other, wins
Visually, I'm always considering shots and composition quite a lot, and I love putting art into films, and I do a lot of the art.
The way we see the problem is the problem.
...to photograph is to frame, and to frame is to exclude.
If the world could remain within a frame like a painting on the wall, I think we'd see the beauty then and stand staring in awe.
The best zoom lens is your legs.
The process of shaping opinion, attitudes, and perceptions was termed the 'engineering of consent' by one of the founders of the modern public relations industry, Edward Bernays.
Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.
In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.
I design my shots. I walk the rehearsal as the camera and say 'this is where I want to be... I want this look.
Film gives us the luxury of deciding where the viewpoint of the audience is, and by knowing that, we can very effectively design around what is actually seen on camera.
Nowadays you don't get to see composition in a movie because nobody ever keeps the camera still long enough to see it. Actors don't have the thrill and the power of working with space.
When I am shooting a film I never think of how I want to shoot something; I simply shoot it.
When I got to Los Angeles, I started building cabins in peoples' yards, building post-and-beam structures and cutting the joinery for those.
I been in jail twice. The first time was reform school: they got me for carrying burglar's tools, something like that. The morals charge was a frame-up.
Having been a cameraman, I think about, 'Well, if this was real, how would this be shot?' I try to inject as much realism as much as possible.
Trump has a way of driving a message so people hear it.
The presentation of an issue can no longer be controlled.
Statement about issue management in the Internet age.
Defining the terms of the debate generally dictates who's gonna' win it.
