If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene, that idea is worth making.

If you can film an idea in your mind, follow that film idea shot for shot, scene for scene and enjoy it, that idea is worth making for the world to see. It can change someone's life.

Filmmaking is not the work of the weak-minded. It may not be rocket science, but it requires ten times more strength of the mind than that.

I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.

Film is, to me, just unimportant. But people are very important.

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 way.
Against the tactics of speed, of noise, set tactics of slowness, of silence.