"Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?"

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Source : Sergei Eisenstein (2014). “Film Form: Essays in Film Theory”, p.78, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Sergei Eisenstein

#Ideas Quotes #Two Quotes #Cinema Quotes

“I'll be honest, there's a part of me that does think I'm held to a different standard than my contemporaries and peers, and it's a little frustrating.”
“What makes me laugh? Richard Nixon always made me laugh.”
“The best way to appreciate our political process is to volunteer for a campaign and support a candidate you believe in.”

Source : Interview with Iman Baghai, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 21, 2012.
“Get out of show business. Its the best advice I ever got, because Im so stubborn that if someone would tell me that, I would stay in it to the bitter end.”
“Nothing is hopeless that is right.”
“I wish I had my beta-blockers handy.”
“Yep. And I noticed how slowly he went down each time, too. (When asked if he noticed how slowly Earl Campbell got up after each play.)”
“I am a caricature of what British science is about in the way I work.”

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