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

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

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.

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that’s impossible.

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

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.