“The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general princip...” — Paolo Sorrentino Quote

“The way I work with my cinematographer is not based on general principles, but the ideas are triggered by the locations where we shoot.”

“The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.”

“What I find compelling is the moment in which people realize, with suffering and pain, that in the past there was a time when they were happy, because back then the present and the future coincided - they were one and the same thing.”

“I got fired from a movie that ended up being called 'Windows,' which Gordon Willis, the cinematographer, directed. I got fired because he refused to cast Meryl Streep, who at the time was at Yale. I told him I thought he was an idiot, and he fired me.”

“I don't know one lens from another. That's not my job. It's the cinematographer's job. But I can talk to people.”

“When shooting in real spaces, the work of a cinematographer begins where location meets production design meets time of day. No movie light will ever look as real as the sun, so scheduling becomes truly paramount to naturalistic lighting.”