Unbalance so as to re-balance.

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 am responsible for my life.

I did not design this game; I did not name the stakes. I just happen to like apples; and I am not afraid of snakes.

We only need to wear shoes because the British built roads which hurt our feet.

I always want more, and that's just my life.

The greatest threat to America is not foreign terrorists, its domestic morons.

Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.

Husbands and wives quarrel a lot more than anyone thinks, and it's oftener about little things than big ones.

The actor is concerned with his own bit of it, but the director's somehow trying to work the whole thing into a much bigger picture. It's like conducting an orchestra.

A favor is to a grateful man delightful always; to an ungrateful man only once.

My goal is never to copy. Create a new style.