Dziga Vertov Quotes

#1. Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov.

Susan Sontag

#2. Part of why I have started writing about love is feeling that our culture is forgetting what Martin Luther King taught. We name more and more streets and schools after him but that's almost irrelevant, because what is to be remembered is that strength to love.

Bell Hooks

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

Dziga Vertov

#4. Neither earth nor ocean produces a creature as savage and monstrous as woman.

Euripides

#5. Sugar is celebratory. Sugar is something that we used to enjoy. Now, it basically has coated our tongues. It's turned into a diet staple, and it's killing us.

Robert Lustig

#6. If you begin to rely upon yourself and become arrogant in your skill, that is the day you will fall.

Chuck Black

#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. You can't take this speck of dust in this midst of all this incredible panorama of birth and complexifying and say ... this is the only place that [life] happens. It's like turning your back on the whole idea of growth and evolution.

Gene Roddenberry

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

Dziga Vertov

#10. We must hold the Bible in one hand and the newspaper in the other.

Karl Barth

#11. 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.

Dziga Vertov

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

Dziga Vertov

#13. 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

#14. Summer was felt a little more;
in autumn I began to fall.
When winter came with all its white,
you were mine to kiss good night.

Lang Leav

#15. 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

#16. Reflections of the battlements shimmered in the deep green moat, casting an image of enduring strength, an image that defied the very siege of time.

Karen Azinger

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

Dziga Vertov

#18. The Secret Revelation of John opens, again, in crisis. The disciple John, grieving Jesus' death, is walking toward the temple when he meets a Pharisee who mocks him for having been deceived by a false messiah. These taunts echoed John's own fear and doubt.

Elaine Pagels