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

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.

Maybe that was the answer to good parenting—pretending the first child was the second.

The road to empowerment starts from self-awareness

A freedom given up is not so easily regained.

There's a lot of difference between listening and hearing.

The man who has fed the chicken every day throughout its life at last wrings its neck instead, showing that more refined views as to the uniformity of nature would have been useful to the chicken.

We want to change the world, but we aren't willing to change ourselves.

If leadership requires a fired-up sense of purpose and imagination, it also demands a profound connection to the society to be led.

The assimilationist movement is running us into the ground.

I'll do anything to pass the ERA [Equal Rights Amendment], even if it means wearing babydoll nightgowns and padded bras, if that will make people less afraid.

What you focus on expands.