Although the assembly of the shots is responsible for the structure of the film, it does not, as is generally assumed, create its rhythm; the distinct time running through the shots makes the rhythm of the picture, and the rhythm is determined not by the length of edited pieces, but by the pressure of the time that runs through them. The pieces that 'won't edit', that can't be properly joined, are those which record a radically different kind of time

My function is to make whoever sees my films aware of his need to love and to give his love, and aware the beauty is summoning him.

"Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards".

Objectivity can only be the author's and therefore subjective, even if he is editing a newsreel.

The only condition of fighting for the right to create is faith in your own vocation, readiness to serve, and refusal to compromise.

Above all, I feel that the sounds of this world are so beautiful in themselves that if only we could listen to them properly, cinema would have no need for music at all.

We have forgotten to observe. Instead of observing, we do things according to patterns.