Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

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.

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 future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.

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

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.