Professional cinema image-taking should integrate, serve, interest, and enhance the story. I judge cinematography not just for a story well told but for what the story is.

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

I think that we should remember that social change can happen when people join together with some strength.

I don't attack any kind of script or shooting with some philosophy that is discernible even to myself. It might just be art and love: When I got my Academy Award for 'Virginia Woolf' in the middle of the Vietnam War, I said, 'I hope we can use our art for peace and love.'

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.

Making a film - particularly what I think is a good film - is the result of a team of people, and the end result has many, many hands on it.