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 you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

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.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

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

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

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