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.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

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.

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

Let nothing be changed and all be different.