The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.

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

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

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

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

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.