“For over 20 years, Michael Ballhaus and I had a real creative partnership, and a very close and enduring friendship.
Scorsese paid tribute to his friend and credited him with invigorating his career in the 80s.
Michael Ballhaus has died at the age of 81, the director of photography on Oscar-winning films who served as Head of the Jury at the 40th Berlin International Film Festival.
By the time we met, he had already made film history with Rainer Werner Fassbinder, and I revered him.