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.

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.

There are more than enoughto fight and oppose

Pain is nothing. Pain is in the mind. If you can walk you can run.

I like seeing women defined by what they do and what they're passionate about rather than the men that they're in love with or associated with. That's always more important to me, as a female.

Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man.

I have never been in a bad mood and near a beach ball at the same time. Causation? Correlation? Or fate?

Offensive acts come back upon the evil doer, like dust that is thrown against the wind.

Wherever I went, crowds appeared again, and I started making solo albums for the first time in my career.

I'm seeking to make sense of life, looking for its meaning and how we can have a better humanity.

I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.

I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.