Christopher Doyle

In addition to being a helluva cinematographer, Christpher Doyle is quite the character:

He is known for his perfectionism and eccentricity. A single love scene in Days of Being Wild, the first of seven films he has made with Hong Kong director Wong Kar-Wai, was completed after 53 takes. Their last film together, 2046, took five years to make. For Zhang Yimou's Hero, Doyle insisted on filming a certain kind of tree that only blossoms in Mongolia for 10 days a year. He shot Gus Van Sant's frame-for-frame colour remake of Psycho without having seen Hitchcock's original, and on Chen Kaige's Temptress Moon he drank a bottle and half of whisky a day

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