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

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

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

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

“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.”

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