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.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

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.

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

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.