A film is born in my head and I kill it on paper. It is brought back to life by the actors and then killed in the camera. It is then resurrected into….

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

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 ….

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

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

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

Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness..

Prefer what intuition whispers in your ear to what you have done and redone ten times in your head..

Let nothing be changed and all be different..

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

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

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 themselve….

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 ….

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it..

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

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene..

Two types of films: those that employ the resources of the theater (actors, direction, etc...) and use the camera in order to reproduce; those that e….

The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer….

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..

Practice the precept: find without seeking.

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself..