Sergei Eisenstein Quotes

Sergei Eisenstein Biography

Nationality: Latvian
Type: Director

Born: January 23, 1898
Death: February 11, 1948

Sergei Eisenstein Quotes #1

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

Tags: Knowledge , Better, Human

Sergei Eisenstein Quotes #2

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

Tags: Two, Why, Rather

Sergei Eisenstein Quotes #3

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Sergei Eisenstein

Tags: Film, Language, Painting

Sergei Eisenstein Quotes #4

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

Tags: Greatest, While, Color

Sergei Eisenstein Quotes #5

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

Tags: Person, Find, Less

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