Nothing is more intriguing than a still photograph in the middle of a motion picture... Just as an accident is a cry changed into silence and not a silence after a cry, photography is speed rendered motionless.

Anything of any importance cannot help but be unrecognizable, since it bears no resemblance to anything already known.

The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition.

It is difficult to live without opium after having known it because it is difficult, after knowing opium, to take earth seriously. And unless one is a saint, it is difficult to live without taking earth seriously.

Perhaps I know to what extent I can go too far.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.