Catch instants. Spontaneity, freshness.

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.

If you want to heal a broken heart, Be smart! That's all an ancient art.Start by loving the very small partsThat were left there shattered apart.

How Horrid" has a slightly facetious tone that strikes me as Wildean. It appears to embrace the actual horror--puberty, public disgrace--then at the last second nimbly sidesteps it, laughing.

My dad was a very funny man - he's the one who taught me life would be awfully hard without humor! I'm sure his Irish wit in some way influenced my decision to become an actress.

If I had only known, I would have been a locksmith.

The Democrats generally recoil from the subject of entitlements.

He who obeys, does not listen to himself!

Compassion, caring, teaching, loving, and sharing your gifts, talents, and abilities are the gateways to power.

I even used to stop vehicles going through stop signs, even though I was walking.

As with every phenomenon of the objective universe, the first step toward understanding work is to analyze it.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.