When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

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.

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

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.

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.

Practice the precept: find without seeking