The award winning cinematographer who won Oscars for “Apocalypse Now” and "The Last Emperor"
He won his first Oscar for the cinematography of "Apocalypse Now," for which director Francis Ford Coppola gave him free rein to design the visual look of the picture.
He won his second Oscar as the director of photography on Warren Beatty's "Reds "
He won his third Oscar as the director of photography on Bertolucci's Best Picture Academy
"All great films are a resolution of a conflict between darkness and light," Storaro says. "There is no single right way to express yourself. There are infinite possibilities for the use of light with shadows and colours. The decisions you make about composition, movement and the countless combinations of these and other variables are what make it an art."
ccording to Storaro, "Some people will tell you that technology will make it easier for one person to make a movie alone but cinema is not an individual art." Storaro disagrees. "It takes many people to make a movie. You can call them collaborators or co-authors. There is a common intelligence.
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