“There is something missing in a lot of digital filmmaking, something I call “poetic reality.” That’s something you see played out in film noir, where the technique establishes the mood. If you do not bother to take the time to compose and to light properly, then you end up with something almost less than reality. You end up without the soul, the heart, the art of the moment. There is something more to “reality” than just the tangible. There is also mood, and you cannot skip that.”

Vilmos Zsigmond