The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance with which your images must shine.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

When a sound can replace an image, cut the image or neutralize it. The ear goes more towards the within, the eye towards the outer.

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

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.