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

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

The future of cinematography belongs to a new race of young solitaries who will shoot films by putting their last penny into it and not let themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.

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.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

A too-expected image (cliché) will never seem right, even if it is.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.