Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive. When you hear a noise at night, instantly you imagine its cause. The sound of a train whistle conjures up the whole station. The eye can perceive only what is presented to it.

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

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

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

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

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.