We need improvement in the style of performance. There is no more advantage in a musician who plays and conducts than in one who is only a beater of rhythm.
When you photograph a face. . . you photograph the soul behind it.
Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth twenty-four times per second.
Art is not a reflection of reality, it is the reality of a reflection.
He who jumps into the void owes no explanation to those who stand and watch.
The cinema is not an art which films life: the cinema is something between art and life. Unlike painting and literature, the cinema both gives to life and takes from it, and I try to render this concept in my films. Literature and painting both exist as art from the very start; the cinema doesn't.
Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed; nature never pretends.
We have an insanity plea that would have saved Cain.
I guess my life was in a pretty disorderly fashion, so I think the music came out that way a little bit.
O sweet spontaneous earth