The Director of Photography is
the custodian of the heart of film
making ... as the writers are of its
soul ... his tool is a box with a
glass window, lifeless until he
breathes into it his creative spirit
and injects into its steel veins, the
plasma of his imagination .... the
product of his camera, and there-
fore of his magic, means many
things to many persons - fulfill-
ment of an ambition .... realization
of dreams.

- Cecil B. DeMille