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.

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head.

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

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

The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.

Practice the precept: find without seeking