Dreyer Quotes

#1. My thinking was that today's spectator is so well-versed in film language that all theories about suspense, as argued by Dreyer and Hitchcock, on what makes you scared in cinema, can be ditched. It's the spectator, finally, who's going to construct the menace and the fear.

Bruno Dumont

#2. In a way, all Scandinavian movies are descendants of the original Scandinavian Christian-metaphor movie, Danish director Carl Dreyer's 1928 'The Passion of Joan of Arc,' one of the seven or eight best films ever made and impossible to watch more than once.

Steve Erickson

#3. I've got to mark you as mine somehow. Unfortunately, people aren't cats; no matter how much I rub my face all over you, it just doesn't work.

V.L. Dreyer

#4. That's the thing about rocks--they don't break easily. When I held them, I wanted to be like them-strong and steady, weathered but not broken.

Ellen Dreyer

#5. Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.

Carl Theodor Dreyer

#6. When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.

Oscar Wilde

#7. A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when viewed from the inside is simply a series of defeats.

George Orwell

#8. We are products of our past, but we don't have to be prisoners of it.

Rick Warren

#9. If you don't like what you're getting back in life, take a look at what you're putting out.

Pam Dreyer

#10. You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

Carl Theodor Dreyer

#11. Nobody's perfect, but the whole point of love is that the feeling is perfect, even if the people are not.

V.L. Dreyer

#12. Thankfully, memories were portable, and they only weighed as much as we let them.

V.L. Dreyer

#13. The first task of every author is to evoke emotion in their reader. You may laugh or you may cry; you may love me or you may hate me. So long as you feel something, I know that I'm doing my job.

V.L. Dreyer

#14. When we take a picture, we have a negative. We put the right solution on it and, suddenly, the picture comes to life. So what do we do? We take the negative and turn it into a positive.

Madonna Ciccone

#15. There was a water-drop, it joined the sea,
A speck of dust, it was fused with earth;
what of your entering and leaving this world?
A fly appeared, and disappeared.

Omar Khayyam

#16. If you look at my audiences, even in Europe, they're hardly teenagers.

Norman Granz