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. 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

#3. See the colorful possibilities from our life, we are self the creator from It to make a decision or stop it.stop

Jan Jansen

#4. I had declared in public my desire to be a writer ... I wanted to develop a curiosity that was oceanic and insatiable as well as a desire to learn and use every word in the English language that didn't sound pretentious or ditzy.

Pat Conroy

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

Dziga Vertov

#6. When he touched me, it stung my hand as if an electric current had passed through us.

Stephenie Meyer

#7. People whose minds are not strengthened for endurance are by no means always unintelligent. They simply have never stopped to think that the use of the mind for the purpose of growth is a necessary part of a God-pleasing lifestyle.

Gordon MacDonald

#8. 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

#9. We utilize energy from carbon, not because we are bad people, but because it is the affordable foundation on which the profound improvements in our standard of living have been achieved - our progress in health and welfare.

John Christy

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

Dziga Vertov

#11. The feeling of not being enough for someone, of knowing you would do anything for them and they not the same for you. I didn't want to, but I felt bad for her. I wanted to hate her, but I couldn't. I couldn't blame her for what she didn't know.

Courtney Giardina

#12. Never be SARCASTIC. A clever remark might gain you a few laughs but the butt of your remarks will be offended and will remember you for it.

Gary L. Graybill

#13. Not everyone in the world is alike. And some of us are a lot more different than others. Some of us were born like this, some of us were changed. But no matter how this happened to you, if you are here it is because this is your destiny. It was chosen for you.

C.C. Hunter

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

Dziga Vertov

#15. as far as your body's cells are concerned, healthy diets are all essentially the same, resting on the same Four Pillars: meat on the bone, fermented and sprouted foods, organs and other "nasty bits," and fresh, unadulterated plant and animal products.

Catherine Shanahan

#16. 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

#17. Sometimes our lives can change so fast that the change outpaces our minds and hearts.

Cassandra Clare

#18. Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.

Edwin Way Teale

#19. I've got three kids, and those are mouths to feed.

Simon Le Bon

#20. Schools learned long ago that the way to keep children from thinking is to keep them busy.

Everett Reimer

#21. Meantime the Newspaper of Record goes around in a little pleated skirt shaking pompoms, leaping in the air with an idiot grin if so much as a cement mixer passes by.

Thomas Pynchon

#22. 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

#23. My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

Joseph Gordon-Levitt

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

Dziga Vertov