- Vittorio Storaro: There was always the mystery. There is a corridor - that can be very short or very long - on mystery. The mystery of life. The mystery of cinema.
- Vittorio Storaro: Leading with some kind of mechanical element, the film camera, the film stock, the projector, you are the only one who know how the image will be in every set. Only the cinematographer kept this secret within itself. For many, many years we've been called: the keeper of magic.
- Gordon Willis: We'd work very quickly with Woody. He'd say what he'd want us to do. And I'd say, you know, boom boom. How's this? Bop bop...
- Roger Deakins: The scene is the way it is because we had to make do with what we had. That's the magic. Its those little moments where you create something.
- John Boorman: What you're trying to achieve with cinematography is to give the illusion of the third dimension. Because its two dimensional. You spend all that money, a big crew, you cut it all together, you've added music and all you have at the end of the day is a light flickering on the wall. That's all you have.