Sergei Eisenstein quotes

Sergei Eisenstein was a pioneering Soviet film director and theorist, celebrated for his innovative use of montage in cinema. His groundbreaking films, such as "Battleship Potemkin," have had a lasting influence on film theory and practice worldwide. He is regarded as one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. Here are 6 of his quotes:

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema. (Sergei Eisenstein)

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

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

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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.

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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

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.

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Occupation: Latvian Director
Born: January 10, 1898
Died: February 11, 1948
Quotes count: 6
Wikipedia: Sergei Eisenstein

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