“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”

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

“Unbalance so as to re-balance.”

“The thing that matters is not what they show me but what they hide from me and, above all, what they do not suspect is in them.”

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

“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.”

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