Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

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

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

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.

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.

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.