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.

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

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

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

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

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