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.

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.

Each man is master of his own death and all that we can do when the time comes is to help him die without fear of pain.

You can not make everybody happy.

Exactness and neatness in moderation is a virtue, but carried to extremes narrows the mind.

I am mad - but I choose this madness.

The fact is that the average man's love of liberty is nine-tenths imaginary, exactly like his love of sense, justice and truth.

I think when you know what you are going to wear, it fits and it's great material, then you feel confident in it.

[Kid] never learned to read in kindergarten, first, and second, so in third grade he begins to be placed in the EMH or the learning-disabled rooms.

Man is God's highest present development. He is the latest thing in God.

Cast me gently into the morning for the night has been unkind.

Part of the American dream is to own your own property - something no one can.