The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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