Empty the pond to get the fish.

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.

Change excites me. I am fifty years old. It's when the mind catches up with the body.

The Beach Boys are not a superstar group. The music is the superstar of the group.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

One of the agonies of being an author is to know when to stop writing.

I haven't thought about aspirations for the future. I like politics, I like serving the public, and we'll see if God offers us another opportunity in the future.

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

I would always wear basketball jerseys and have my hair in a ponytail.

What matters to us, the judgment of men? What have we to doubt, since we are pure before life?

We always did our own mixing.

I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.