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

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.

Unfortunately, humans have a long history of trying to fix their engineering mistakes with more engineering mistakes!

You are the stories you tell, whatever their basis in fact or experience. It’s who you are.

If the reader cares, I dont think it matters so much whether your hero is in fact an anti-hero.

I always wanted to be an outrage to public decency and a threat to women. And this is one of the few occupations where you're not only allowed that, but you're encouraged.

President Obama has two years left as president. I wouldn't be surprised if he gets to appoint two new Kardashian husbands.

People want to know who is coming into their country and they want to control their own trade and various other things.

Market competition is the only form of organization which can afford a large measure of freedom to the individual.

I rather despise claims to objectivity in philosophy; the point of view is the thing.

A person without regrets is a nincompoop.

When there is an issue, I approach it and hit it head on. I speak the truth. If I do something wrong, then I own it.