Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen..

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!.

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

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

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

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

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden..

Empty the pond to get the fish..

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

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

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable..

The crude real will not by itself yield truth..

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..

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….

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen..

Unbalance so as to re-balance..

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..

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

It is in its pure form that an art hits hard..

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form..