Practice the precept: find without seeking

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.

I'm never happier than when I'm part of an ensemble. The rhythm of working in a group and the dynamic of each individual relationship within that group coming together is such a special thing.

We can't all be Washingtons, but we can all be patriots.

There are all these moments you don't think you will survive. And then you survive.

That's true of every form of literature - each writer brings new things to it because each of us is an individual.

All distinctions of birth or of rank have been abolished. All citizens, whether native or adopted, are placed upon terms of precise equality. All are entitled to equal rights and equal protection.

It is the darling delusion of mankind that the world is progressive in religion, toleration, freedom, as it is progressive in machinery.

Our role in Israel is a pioneering one, and we need people with certain strength of fiber.

The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.

You must be fearless. It is the coward who fears and defends himself

Every failure is a lesson learned about your strategy.