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

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

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

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

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable way. Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.

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.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.