Empty the pond to get the fish.

Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

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

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

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.

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.

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.