Cinematography Is A Writing With Images In

The Crude Real Will Not By Itself Yield Truth.

The Point Is Not To Direct Someone, But To Direct Oneself.

For Me, Film-making Is Combining Images And Sounds Of Real Things In An Order That Makes Them Effective. What I Disapprove Of Is Photographing Things That Are Not Real. Sets And Actors Are Not Real.

The Most Ordinary Word, When Put Into Place, Suddenly Acquires Brilliance. That Is The Brilliance With Which Your Images Must Shine.

A Film Is Born In My Head And I Kill It On Paper. It Is Brought Back To Life By The Actors And Then Killed In The Camera. It Is Then Resurrected Into A Third And Final Life In The Editing Room Where The Dismembered Pieces Are Assembled Into Their Finished Form.