"Cinematography is infinite in its possibilities... much more so than music or language."
"It was 100 feet of 16 mm black-and-white film of a car coming to a stop sign, and driving off. I had to decide how to frame and light it. It was magic. There was a sense of mystery."
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Source: Last words, 1979.
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