An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

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.

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.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.