"[The photograph] is the object itself... [It] shares, by virtue of the very process of its becoming, the being of the model of which it is the reproduction; it is the model."

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Source : André Bazin (2005). “What is Cinema?”, p.14, Univ of California Press

Andre Bazin

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“It was probably the biggest accomplishment of my life.”
“The motion picture is like journalism in that, more than any of the other arts, it confers celebrity. Not just on people - on acts, and objects, and places, and ways of life. The camera brings a kind of stardom to them all. I therefore doubt that film can ever argue effectively against its own material: that a genuine antiwar film, say, can be made on the basis of even the ugliest battle scenes ... No matter what filmmakers intend, film always argues yes.”
“There are two impulses in theatre: to be frivolous or to make rules.”
“Every man is a valuable member of society, who, by his observations, researches, and experiments, procures knowledge for men,”
“Chance favors the well prepared. The more stuff you throw in, the more chances you have of looking like, 'I did that.'”

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“I would not be gotten into a schoolhouse until I was eight years old. Nor did I accomplish much after I started. I doubt if I had gone to school six months in all when my father died. I was fourteen at the time.”
“Now I've had everything except for the thrill of watching Babe Ruth play.”
“I talk to our players about life and situations and doing the right thing all the time.”

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