Dziga Quotes & Sayings

Being offended has replaced baseball as our greatest national pastime. — Kim Hunt Harris

When great depths of unrelenting sorrow are punctuated by great peaks of joy and liberation, the result is delicious. — Georges St-Pierre

I wanted people to know that we fired rounds into moving trucks and open windows to survive, not for anyone else's freedom. Not for the Democrats. Not for Republicans. Just to survive. — Clint Van Winkle

As if the physical proximity can make up for the emotional distance. — Irvine Welsh

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. — Dziga Vertov

There is magic everywhere around you, but most people are too busy being grownup to notice it. — Sassafras Lowrey

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 — Dziga Vertov

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

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. — Dziga Vertov

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. — Dziga Vertov

If you can't change a situation, you can change your attitude toward it. — Abraham Low

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

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

I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations.
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. — Dziga Vertov

Chris Marker has a brilliant mind and heart and appetite for life, and it's a privilege to travel with him to whatever he chooses to remember and to evoke. He is one of cinema's all time greats - the most important reflective or non-narrative filmmaker after Dziga Vertov. — Susan Sontag

Wetikos can psychopathically (and thus toxically) mimic the human personality perfectly. If it serves their agenda, they can be convincing beyond belief, making themselves out to be normal, caring, politically correct human beings. They can endlessly talking about taking responsibility, but they never genuinely face up to and become accountable for their actions. They are unable to genuinely mourn, being only concerned with themselves. They will feign grief, however, just as they will try to appear compassionate, if it is politically expedient to do so and, hence, to their advance, they are master manipulators. — Paul Levy

There's a lot of sex. But it isn't about sex. — Peter Milligan

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

I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. I free myself for today and forever from human immobility. I'm in constant movement. I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. I fall and rise with the falling and rising bodies. This is I, the machine, manoeuvring in the chaotic movements, recording one moment after another in the most complex combinations.
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. - Dziga Vertov 1923 — John Berger