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.

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.

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

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

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.

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

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