Contemporary Cinematographers on Their Art

Don Burgess, A.S.C.

"In filmmaking, we often want to fall hack into doing what we know how to do. However, directors like Bob Zemeckis have shown me how to find new ways of telling stories. In filmmaking, you have limitless possibilities. You just have to open your mind and expand your thinking. It's the only way to keep the stories new and interesting for intelligent audiences who respond to the unusual, not the ordinary."

Climb down the narrow side stairs of Don Burgess A.S.C.'s Pacific Palisades home, then enter his long and narrow office set on the rocky mound of a hillside and the first thing you see is an incredible view. A wall of windows ...