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.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

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

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.