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…

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Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

An old thing becomes new if you detach it from what usually surrounds it.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in...

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in...

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them,...

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them,...

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance...

The most ordinary word, when put into place, suddenly acquires brilliance. That is the brilliance...

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is...

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is...

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body.

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in...

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in...

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper

Homer is new this morning, and perhaps nothing is as old as today's newspaper

Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation...

Its hard to believe that in the greatest democracy in the world, we need legislation...

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But...

Newspapers, television networks, and magazines have sometimes been outrageously abusive, untruthful, arrogant, and hypocritical. But...

We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the...

We are so cleverly manipulated and influenced by the media and establishments on both the...

People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now,...

People in the media say they must look at the president with a microscope. Now,...

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and...

The news is staged, anticipated, reported, analyzed until all interest is wrung from it and...

The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on...

The American people deserve to know that they're not just watching the administration's spin on...

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the...

People shouldn't expect the mass media to do investigative stories. That job belongs to the...

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi...

All I know is just what I read in the papers, and that's an alibi...

If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.

If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your own.

For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about...

For a politician to complain about the press is like a ship's captain complaining about...