- In his biography of producer Mark Hellinger (who produced The Naked City (1948), which won Daniels an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, Black-and-White), Jim Bishop wrote: "In the old silent days, Daniels had been the best of them all. His camerawork was so close to art that producers and directors and cameramen used to sit in private projection rooms, not to judge a picture, but to see what new tricks of lighting and effects Daniels had achieved. The industry acknowledged that Daniels' work was so fine that other cameramen were never censured for shamelessly stealing it".
- Frank Sinatra was so impressed by Daniels' work on Some Came Running (1958) that he insisted on using him as cameraman on nine subsequent films, on three of which he also served as associate producer or co-producer. He also co-produced, but did not photograph, Sinatra's only film as director, None But the Brave (1965).
- President of American Society of Cinematographers 1961-63.
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