If every event which occurred could be given a name, there would be no need for stories.

The autobiographical doesn't interest me. I could think of few things less interesting than rooting about in my life.

Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

Compare the cinema with theatre. Both are dramatic arts. Theatre brings actors before a public and every night during the season they re-enact the same drama. Deep in the nature of theatre is a sense of ritual. The cinema, by contrast, transports its audience individually, singly, out of the theatre towards the unknown.

To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for oneself. A naked body has to be seen as an object in order to become a nude. (The sight of it as an object stimulates the use of it as an object.) Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. To be naked is to be without disguises.

We never look at just one thing; we are always looking at the relation between things and ourselves.

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory.