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

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

“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.”

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

“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.”