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 in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.
Practice the precept: find without seeking.
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 themselves be taken in by the material routines of the trade.
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.
Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.
Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.
The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.
The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.
Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.
Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.
Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.
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 a third and final life in the editing room where the dismembered pieces are assembled into their finished form.
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.
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.