Unbalance so as to re-balance.

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.

My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.

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

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

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.

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