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

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

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

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

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.

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.

Empty the pond to get the fish.