"Language is much closer to film than painting is."

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

Sergei Eisenstein

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“Flaubert's famous sentence, "Madame Bovary, c'est moi" ("Madame Bovary, she is me"), in reality means, " Madame Bovary, c'est nous" ("Madame Bovary, she is us"), in our modern incapacity to live a "good-enough" life.”
“Art's primary social function is to define the communal self, which includes redefining it when the community is changing.”
“It's a challenge getting rid of your accent.”

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“The paint for the grey paintings was mixed beforehand and then applied with different implements - sometimes a roller, sometimes a brush. It was only after painting them that I sometimes felt that the grey was not yet satisfactory and that another layer of paint was needed.”
“In every woman's wardrobe, there are certain accessories that cannot be separated from their back stories.”
“To spend 36 hours or 48 hours of my life binge-watching something seems insane to me.”

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“You can let hate, animosity and anger eat away at you, or you can let it go and begin again.”
“There's a lot of power and responsibility that comes with owning who you are as a woman.”

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