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"Silence is the great discovery of sound film."

"Films are like houses that withstand time magnificently-if they are well constructed."

"The music can't be there to support or reinforce.It should be one of the transformative elements-it should help transform the images and the other sounds that are put into contact one with another during the editing process,without which there is no life in cinema.For example,in A Man Escaped Mozart's Mass provides a liturgiacal aspect to the emptying of the prisoners's pails,one that isn't provided by the image alone.There is no music in The Trial of Joan of Arc.I could not have made a sublime subject any more sublime- and there was no need."

"Music plays an additional role for me.wich is to prepare for silence.Because you'II see that there are silences in my film."

"No,but I believe in the flashes of insight,or of intuition,during production.Editing is the real moment of creation,the possibility of lucidity and precision.When all of the elements- images,voices,sounds,silence- find their exact place within the whole,links are revealed between them.It's these links that can make life suddenly irrupt."

"You can't look for poetry. You find it in what's left out, in what is suggested."

"When I choose the nonprofessionales I want to use in a film.I don't look for acting talent but for an inner life,a mystery."

"What is beautiful in a film,what I look for,in essence,is a journey toward the unknow,"

"My films are tiny morsels made from a combination of sound and silence."

"The more intuitive I am,the more I believe in the quality of my work."