Quotes by Sergei Eisenstein

About Sergei Eisenstein:

Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein is noted in particular for his silent films Strike (1925), Battleship Potemkin (1925) and October (1928), as well as the historical epics Alexander Nevsky (1938) and Ivan the Terrible (1944, 1958).
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Down the steps, ...over the corpses, ...careers the pram with the child.

Sergei Eisenstein

Even in a less exaggerated description, any verbal account of a person is bound to find itself employing an assortment of waterfalls, lightning rods, landscapes, birds, etc.

Sergei Eisenstein

For example, in painting the form arises from abstract elements of line and color, while in cinema the material concreteness of the image within the frame presents - as an element - the greatest difficulty in manipulation.

Sergei Eisenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

Sergei Eisenstein

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?

Sergei Eisenstein

The profession of film director can and should be such a high and precious one; that no man aspiring to it can disregard any knowledge that will make him a better film director or human being.

Sergei Eisenstein

Author Bio

  • NameSergei Eisenstein
  • DescriptionSoviet filmmaker
  • AliasesSergei M. Eisenstein; Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein; ?????? ?????????? ??????????; ?????? ??????????
  • BornJanuary 23, 1898
  • DiedFebruary 11, 1948
  • CountryRussian Empire; Soviet Union
  • ProfessionFilm Director; Inventor
  • AwardsState Stalin Prize; Order Of Lenin