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

“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 employ the resources of cinematography and use the camera to create”

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

“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.”

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

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

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