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

“Bring together things that have not yet been brought together and did not seem predisposed to be so.”

“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...”

“If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very at...”

“Known as Leni, Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl was born on August 22, 1902. During the Third Reich she was known throughout Germany as a close friend and confidant of the Adolf Hitler. Recognized ...”

“Known as “Leni,” Helene Bertha Amalie Riefenstahl was born on August 22, 1902. During the Third Reich she was known throughout Germany as a close friend and confidant of the Adolf Hitler. Recognize...”

“The dangerous temptation of wildlife films is that they can lull us into thinking we can get by without the original models -- that we might not need animals in the flesh.”

“Women think in [Douglas] Sirks films. Something which has never struck me with other directors. None of them. Usually women are always reacting, doing what women are supposed to do, but in Sirk the...”

“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second”

“Music is the final piece of filmmakingthe essential element that pulls emotion from an audience and puts the goosebumps on the screen.”

“Collaborating on a film script involves two people sitting in a room separated by the silence of two minds working together.”

“The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. Then you're not a traveler. You're a f@@king tourist.”