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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

Genius develops in quiet places character out in the full current of human life.

I do look forward to keeping in touch with the guys because we'll always be connected in people's minds.

I don't plan to return. I have a lot of unresolved things to do.

Someone, I don't know who- it might have even been me- said, Any man at the age of twenty-five who is not a Communist has no heart: any man who is still is at the age of thirty-five has no head.

Wake up with a plan of action, go to bed with satisfaction.

I've always been distracted when somebody is coming after me and saying, "You're the only person who can play this part."

Crime is contagious....if the government becomes a lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for the law.

When I came into office, I could have kicked the can down the road for a little while, or I could do the right thing.

Men endured so much for war, but for peace they dared nothing.