The True Is Inimitable, The False Untransformable.

Hostility To Art Is Also Hostility To The New, To The Unforeseen.

Catch Instants. Spontaneity, Freshness.

Laugh At A Bad Reputation. Fear A Good One That You Could Not Sustain.

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

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.