Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

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.

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

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

To create is not to deform or invent persons and things. It is to tie new relationships between persons and things which are, and as they are.

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

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.