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

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

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

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.

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

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

Bring together things that have as yet never been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.

Ten properties of an object, according to Leonardo: light and dark, color and substance, form and position, distance and nearness, movement and stillness.

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.

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

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

Where are we going?” Annabelle asked, resisting his hold on her wrist.“To the house. If they’re not willing to be witnesses, then it seems I’ll have to debauch you in front of someone else.

What an excellent great soul you are?

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

I was nobody until.... now.... Now I think that I'm somebody!

As long as we are not chased from our words we have nothing to fear. As long as our utterances keep their sound we have a voice. As long as our words keep their sense we have a soul.

Loquacity with tongue or pen is its own reward -- or, punishment.

I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.

We are not here to curse the darkness, but to light the candle that can guide us through that darkness to a safe and sane future.

I think the world has moved on.

I couldn't live without music. I experienced things through music in different countries where you cannot speak the same language, but the music and the dance relates everything.