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

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders!... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!.

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are..

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body..

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it..

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows..

Be the first to see what you see as you see it..

Empty the pond to get the fish..

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

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….

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

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

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

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself..

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 ….

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….

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….

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

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it..

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