For me, film-making is combining images and sounds of real things in an order that makes them effective. What I disapprove of is photographing things that are not real. Sets and actors are not real.

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.

I imagine music sitting in a chair across from me saying "and how does that make you feel?".

I’m sorry about Finch. He was a good, screwed up kid who should have had more help.” “I feel responsible.

The difference between perseverance and obstinacy is that one often comes from a strong will and the other from a strong won't.

He was so gorgeous... Kurt. I don't know how I got lucky that way.

The songs come from a vulnerable place, but expressing that part of yourself can also make you feel fearless.

I don't ever want to be doing the same sort of thing, I never want to be typecast, because I have way too much to give to be sort of, to always be the hot chick in the movie.

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

We know to much to command ourselves very far.

As winds come whispering lightly from the West, Kissing, not ruffling, the blue deep's serene.

If we seek the most happiness we can as individuals, it sort of bleeds into other people's lives.