All films are born free and equal.

Photography does not create eternity, as art does; it embalms time, rescuing it simply from its proper corruption.

All films are born free and equal.

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

The photographer proceeds, via the intermediary of the lens, to a point where he literally takes a luminous imprint, a cast... [But] the cinema realizes the paradox of moulding itself on the time of the object and of taking the imprint of its duration as well.

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

Photography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.