Gordon Willis, cinematographer of Manhattan, Annie Hall and The Godfather talks about how he never got fired in this exclusive Snack.
The key, Gordon explains, when exploring ideas, is not to make them arbitrary:
I worked for very difficult people… but I think they were all very craft people. They were very receptive to my ideas because they weren’t arbitrary. They were about making the script better.- Gordon Willis
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