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.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

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.

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.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create