Cinematography, A Military Art. Prepare A Film

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 On To A Screen, Come To Life Again Like Flowers In Water.

Ideally, Nothing Should Be Shown, But That’s Impossible.

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.

Ten Properties Of An Object, According To Leonardo: Light And Dark, Color And Substance, Form And Position, Distance And Nearness, Movement And Stillness.

Unbalance So As To Re-balance.