For me, the special satisfaction in being a director of photography - you might even call it my private ego trip - is knowing that the work I do will live on after I'm gone. Most people have jobs in which the work disappears after they have performed it. I'm very fortunate to work in a profession which has lasting value. It gives me a unique form of immortality. It certainly isn't comparable to the immortality of great artists like
Leonardo Da Vinci or
Michelangelo. But in a small way, it means future generations can discover my work - and know that, at this point in time, I was here.
