Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

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.

No man was born empty.

...and it struck her as the truest form of kindness, the most basic sort of love: to be worried about the one who was worrying about you.

The proof of true love for God is in service to others.

Couldn't start the morning without caffeine.

Marriage was never a destination with me.

I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.

Communism has decided against God, against Christ, against the Bible, and against all religion.

The production of obscurity in Paris compares to the production of motor cars in Detroit in the great period of American industry.

He is ugly and sad, but he is all love.

I lifted the lid and found a piece of bread and some water—and a rat that quickly darted off the tray. Talk about adding insult to injury.