Dziga Vertov Inspirational Quotes (8)

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.

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

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.

Freed from the boundaries of time and space, I co-ordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be. My way leads towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.

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

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

I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things-I crawl under them-I climb on them-I am on the head of a galloping horse.

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