Dziga Vertov Quotes

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.