Every image is to be seen as an object and every object as an image.

The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.

All films are born free and equal.

Photography has freed the plastic arts from their obsession with likeness.

[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model.

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.

All the arts are based on the presence of man, only photography derives an advantage from his absence. Photography affects us like a phenomenon in nature, like a flower or a snowflake whose vegetable or earthly origins are an inseparable part of their beauty.