“THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929) the 'honesty' of documentary as compared with fiction film, the 'perfection' of the cinematic eye compared with human eye.”
“Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?”
“It is quite futile to argue that man is small compared to the cosmos; for man was always small compared to the nearest tree.”
“Both those taking snaps and documentary photographers, however, have not understood 'information.' What they produce are camera memories, not information, and the better they do it, the more they prove the victory of the camera over the human being.”
“In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.”
“He understands now why kisses in movies are filmed the way they are, with the camera endlessly circling, circling: the ground is unsteady under his.”