“The biggest fear in teaching cinematography is to make this subject extremely technical and loosing the feeling for it. While a technical component is obvious and necessary, Cinematography is not math, is not a logical approach coming from the brain. True Cinematography is principally instinct, energy, intuition and empathy, emotional participation to the process of storytelling. There is no magic formula to use to know the proper settings of the camera as well as where the focus should be or what you should do to achieve greatness. We can discuss how much as we want of logic in framing, exposure, processing techniques, but after all, where the camera goes and what is in the frame is most of the time the result of an interior process that it’s truly hard to rationalize. For someone is a very intellectual process, for others is guts. For most is an imperfect combination of both.”