Cinematography, a military art. Prepare a film like a battle.

Cinematography is a writing with images in mouvement and with sounds.

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.

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

Stand up and walk. Move on. After all, you have perfect legs to stand on.

Self leadership requires us to lead and motivate ourselves. But it looks a heck of a lot like schizophrenia during a ropes course.

I swear, when that woman dies, she'll be deader than everybody else.~Pattiecake from Laid Out and Candle Lit

When I work fourteen hours a day, seven days a week, I get lucky.

[My kids] complained about Secret Service as they became teenagers, and Secret Service has done the very best job they could accommodating them, so it hasn't restricted any of their activities.

A good thing can't be cruel.

The Republican Party, as much as it pains me to say this, should be ashamed of themselves.

Poetry can't cure cancer, but it can save your life until you die.

What is remembered is what becomes reality.

The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.