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

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

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

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.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

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