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

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

Practice the precept: find without seeking

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

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.