Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

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.

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.