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

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.

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

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.