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Sergei Eisenstein Quotes



Quotes by Sergei Eisenstein - (7 quotes)

Sergei Eisenstein - From the Improvisation category:

Careful planning, and brilliant improvisation. (Sergei Eisenstein)

Sergei Eisenstein - From the Influence category:

We thought we were shaping life and cinematography but, as it turned out, life was shaping both us and cinematography. (Sergei Eisenstein)

Sergei Eisenstein - From the Language category:

Language is much closer to film than painting is. (Sergei Eisenstein)

Sergei Eisenstein - From the Language category:

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? (Sergei Eisenstein)

Sergei Eisenstein - From the Language category:

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc. (Sergei Eisenstein)

Sergei Eisenstein - From the Performance category:

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation. (Sergei Eisenstein)

Sergei Eisenstein - From the Profession category:

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being. (Sergei Eisenstein)