Dziga Vertov Quotes

#1. Everybody who cares for his art seeks the essence of his own technique.

Dziga Vertov

#2. My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.

Dziga Vertov

#3. Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.

Dziga Vertov

#4. We cannot improve the making of our eyes, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.

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#5. I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things-I crawl under them-I climb on them-I am on the head of a galloping horse.

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#6. The film drama is the opium of the people ... down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios ... long live life as it is!

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#7. I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see

Dziga Vertov

#8. It is far from simple to show the truth, yet the truth is simple.

Dziga Vertov