“May every eye negotiate for itself.”

“Do not show every aspect of things. Allow yourself a margin of indefiniteness.”

“A film is a girl and a gun.”

The promise of cinema: “The world for a nickel.”

“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see us act with beauty and courage.”

“Perhaps all the terrifying things are something helpless things that need our help.”

“In effect cinema is not part of the communications industry, or the entertainment industry, but of cosmetics, the industry of masks.”

“Cinema has always yearned to be more real than life.”

“Film needs two reels one that gets full or the other gets empty, the master and the slave.”

“To say is to see.”

“A movie projector has to remember the camera.”

“Cinema is only an industry of escapism, because it’s the only place where memory is a slave.”

“The image will come at the time of Resurrection.”

“On the eve of the 20th century, technology decided to reproduce life, so we invented photography and Cinéma. But since morals were still strong, and we would take everything from life, even its identity, we mourned, this killing.”

“Is the man on camera real or already the fiction of a man?”

“If there’s an easy way, the fool chooses the difficult way.”

“And deep inside each love story lurks the story of a nurse.”

“We got rid of perspective, the vanishing point.”

“Art is like fire, it’s born from what is burnt.”

“What is cinema? Nothing. What does it want? Everything. What can it do? Something.”

“Things are there. Why manipulate them?”

“Man has in his own heart places that don’t exist yet and where pain enters so they can be.”

“This is what I like about cinema generally speaking. A saturation of wonderful signs, that swim in the light of their lack of explanation.”