Aesthetics

“E o neo-realismo fez o quê? É um cinema com o equipamento mínimo possível, feito na rua, com o dinheirinho lá do estúdio e com o próprio povo como ator.”

“يا أبناء بلادي... إن تربية الشعور بالجمال تخلق في نفس المرء حتماً حبّ النظام. وإن الفنون هي الأسس الجبارة التي تقوم عليها الأمم، وتُشاد الحضارة، وتُعِدّ النفوس للعمل الكبير.”

“As music is the poetry of sound, so is painting the poetry of sight.”

“Jazz is a great big sea.”

“I seldom paint portraits, and when I do I neither please myself nor my employers.”

“You hit that string and it made a crazy sound. It’s very primal.”

“She is an enchanting actress.”

“Without Art Man would scarce be human; with it he rises above the brute and takes a diviner nature.”

“It was the ‘lurch’ part of the sway that I liked.”

“Montage is the organization of cinematic material.”

“على كل فنان ألا يتخبط بالبحث عن ذاته، وعن أسلوبه.”

“« Le cinéma est un art du présent. Ce n’est pas hier ou demain, c’est aujourd’hui ! »”

“The screen must be charged with the electricity of tragedy.”

“I took it like a lesson from the old master, who taught me that an animal can move the audience even more strongly than any humans.”

“没什么不同，看我演出就知道哪种风格”

“I can think of nothing else than this wretched art of cinema, which I hate and which, no doubt, I love at the same time.”

“If you know how to move up and down in the scale of a raga, and stay within that range, nothing can go wrong.”

“Sus escenas vividas parecen como trazadas por mano maestra; están bien tipificadas y son trasunto fiel de la realidad de nuestra vida provinciana.”