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

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Practice the precept: find without seeking

Master Precision. Be a precision instrument myself.

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.

Empty the pond to get the fish.

Cinema, radio, television, and magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen without hearing.

Let nothing be changed and all be different.

Hide the ideas, but so that people find them. The most important will be the most hidden.

One recognizes the true by its efficacy, by its power.

Unbalance so as to re-balance.

Create expectations to fulfil them.

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

The faculty of using my resources well diminishes when their number grows.

Be sure of having used to the full all that is communicated by immobility and silence.

Rid myself of the accumulated errors and untruths. Get to know my resources, make sure of them.

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

Ideally, nothing should be shown, but that's impossible.

The greater the success, the closer it verges on failure.

The things one can express with the hand, with the head, with the shoulders! ... How many useless and encumbering words then disappear! What economy!

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

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

Laugh at a bad reputation. Fear a good one that you could not sustain.

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

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

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.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

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.

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.

The point is not to direct someone, but to direct oneself.

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

Provoke the unexpected. Expect it.

The true is inimitable, the false untransformable.

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

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

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