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…

- 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…

- 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 …

- Sergei Eisenstein

It is art's task to make manifest the contradictions of Being

- Sergei Eisenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

- Sergei Eisenstein

American capitalism finds its sharpest and most expressive reflection in the American cinema.

- 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,…

- Sergei Eisenstein

Books are attracted to me. They make a beeline for me, and stick to me. I have been so fond of them that at last they have begun to reciprocate. In m…

- Sergei Eisenstein