My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker.

Only those who have patience to do simple things perfectly ever acquire the skill to do difficult things easily.

Sometimes they are a matter of luck the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.

Patience is the ability to idle your motor when you feel like stripping your gears.

It seems likely that many of the young who don’t wait for others to call them artists, but simply announce that they are, don’t have the patience to make art.

I haven’t been given many things, but I’ve been given ample, limitless patience.