"Today we can say that at last the director writes the film. The image--its plastic composition and the way it is set in time, because it is founded on a much higher degree of realism--has at its disposal more means of manipulating reality and of modifying it from within. The film-maker is no longer the competitor of the painter and the playwright, he is, at last the equal of the novelist"

-- Andre Bazin

#Writing Quotes #Mean Quotes #Reality Quotes

“True art consists in concealing art.”
“Lord, baseball is a worrying thing.”
“For some of us, books are as important as almost anything else on earth. What a miracle it is that out of these small, flat, rigid squares of paper unfolds world after world after world, worlds that sing to you, comfort and quiet or excite you. Books help us understand who we are and how we are to behave. They show us what community and friendship mean; they show us how to live and die.”
“If you act in the name of conscience you are stronger than any government in the world.”
“What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?”
“Something very significant appears to be happening in America. There is a dramatic shift in voter affinity toward the GOP, and it may prove to be the mountain-too-high for Barack Obama's campaign.”
“The maker of a sentence launches out into the infinite...”
“I'm not a speed reader. I'm a speed understander.”

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