“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

“When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best -- that is inspiration.”

“Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing”

“Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.”

“The eye solicited alone makes the ear impatient, the ear solicited alone makes the eye impatient. Use these impatiences. Power of the cinematographer who appeals to the two senses in a governable w...”

“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected onto a screen, ...”

“To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.”

“art is risk made visible”

“Eleanor was right. She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn't supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”