We have to be able track the ways in which fear, for instance, is monopolized by state and media institutions, ways in which fear is actually promoted and distributed as a way of bolstering the need for greater security and militarization.
Any picture that needs a caption is a weak picture.
If you want to be clever in your picture, don't let anybody catch you at it. If they catch you, you're not clever.
When values are contrasting, use subtle color. When values are subtle, use contrasting color.
Merely knowing your craft will never be enough to make a picture. If you ever amount to anything at all, it will be because you were true to that deep desire or ideal which made you seek artistic expression in pictures.
Form is expressed in the light tones by dark accents, in the dark tones by light accents.
If you think your picture needs something, take something out.
I got a wife who likes expensive things, so she takes all the cash.
I created a human being from paper and I put it on the screen, a unique individual. I wish every performance, every IMDB credit, I would do it over, because I would do it better, because I would do it less. If that makes any sense.
Love goes toward love as schoolboys from their books, But love from love, toward school with heavy looks.
We need more personnel within our security agencies.