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.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

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 crude real will not by itself yield truth.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard.