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

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.

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.

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.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

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

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