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Q: How does that translate into filmmaking techniques?
A: It’s incredibly difficult. We joke that we are like fishermen. We are trying to get little bits from a river that is constantly flowing. Sometimes you catch one or two, and sometimes you don’t. It’s very nerve-wracking. Sometimes it seems like he is almost trying to create a mistake, to take the actors and the camera to a place where they are going to crash. And it’s those little accidents and moments which are in the film and look naturalistic. Those are the truly visually expressive moments.
"— KODAK: InCamera Web Exclusives. A brief interview with Emmanuel Lubezki, cinematographer of Malick’s “The Tree of Life.”
