Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

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.

Be the first to see what you see as you see it.

What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice. Without the possibility of choice a man is not a man but a member, an instrument, a thing.

Do not be weary to make money.

All the promise of a movie is in the trailer.

Flirtation envies Love, and Love envies Flirtation.

When we realize the degree of agency we actually do have, we no longer have to "hope" at all. We simply do the work.

I'm the one in the band that said I'm not going on tour unless we do a record.

There are circumstances in which despair does not imply inactivity.

I was poor white trash, no glitter, no glamour, but I'm not ashamed of anything.

February dawn -- frost on the path Where I paced all winter.

Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.