Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.
Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.
Let nothing be changed and all be different.
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.