Vsevolod Quotes & Sayings

I want to burn with the spirit of the times. I want all servants of the stage to recognize their lofty destiny. I am disturbed at my comrades' failure to rise above narrow caste interests which are alien to the interests of society at large. Yes, the theatre can play an enormous part in the transformation of the whole of existence. — Vsevolod Meyerhold

All the pressure I have is from myself. I have a lot of pressure inside me. I wanna be great. I don't wanna be average. — Brother Ali

The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok's wonder The Puppet Show. — Vsevolod Meyerhold

What a director really does is set the emotional temperature and the mood and the level, amount, or lack of, distance between the action and the character, and the character and the audience. — James Gray

People here believe in uncontrollable passion, in mad rages, and in the brusque inevitability of death. — Dionne Brand

I often refer to shame as the fear of disconnection
the fear of being perceived as flawed and unworthy of acceptance or belonging. — Brene Brown

Life too is precious to waste - to spend on anything but the best. — Dexter Scott King

Editing is not merely a method of the junction of separate scenes or pieces, but is a method that controls the 'psychological guidance' of the spectator. — Vsevolod Pudovkin

For me, being leftist means fighting against injustice and inequality but, most of all, we want to live well. — Evo Morales

Heroes don't exist. And if they did, I wouldn't be one of them. — Brodi Ashton

As in forming a political society, each individual contributes some of his rights, in order that he may, from a common stock of rights, derive greater benefits, than he could from merely his own; so, in forming a confederation, each political society should contribute such a share of their rights, as will, from a common stock of these rights, produce the largest quantity of benefits for them. — John Dickinson

Film is the greatest teacher because it teaches not only through the brain but through the whole body — Vsevolod Pudovkin

The flower, as he saw it, ruled over evil; it absorbed in itself all innocently shed blood (that is why it is so red) all tears and all the gall of humanity. It was an awful and mysterious being, the antitheses of God, an Ahriman presenting a most unassuming and innocent appearance. It was necessary to break it off and kill it. But this was not all; it was also necessary not to permit it at its death to discharge its evil upon the world. — Vsevolod Garshin