Source: The German State on a National and Socialist Foundation (1923), p. 56
Quoted in: Richard Roud, Godard, introduction (1970).
“We don't have freedom of the press in this country, we have suppression of the press”
In a phone interview with Maria Bartiromo on Fox News November 29, 2020
2020, November 2020
“What the cinema can do better than literature or the spoken drama is to be fantastic.”
"Where are the Movies Moving?" in Essays Old and New (1926)
“The cinema is a place of intrinsic indiscernibility between art and non-art.”
From Considérations sur l'état actuel du cinéma (1999), translated as Philosophy and Cinema in Infinite Thought: truth and the return of philosophy. London: Continuum, 2003. ISBN 0826467245.
Из всех искусств важнейшим для нас является кино.
Conversation with A.V.Lunacharsky (April 1919); also quoted in A Concise History of the Cinema: Before 1940 (1971) by Peter Cowie, p. 137, Complete Works of V.I.Lenin - 5th Edition - Vol. 44. - p. 579.
1910s
“Literature should not be suppressed merely because it offends the moral code of the censor.”
Dissenting, Roth v. United States, 354 U.S. 476 (1957)
Judicial opinions
Quoted in "Oh, girl : A Talk with Julie Taymor" at Subtitles to Cinema (2 September 2008) http://subtitlestocinema.wordpress.com/2008/09/02/oh-girl-a-talk-with-julie-taymor/
Context: The first thing I do when I’m creating, either for stage or for cinema, is to find the ideograph of the story. Which is; the one, simple expression that can tell everything. And at the same time be recognizable for the audience. It’s like in old Japanese paintings — if you were to paint a bamboo forest, you should be able to find its essence with only three strokes.
"105 Years of Illustrated Text" in the Zoetrope All-Story, Vol. 5 No. 1.
105 Years of Illustrated Text
“It is above all through landscape that music joins Romantic art and literature.”
Source: The Romantic Generation (1995), Ch. 3 : Mountains and Song Cycles
“With Alexander the stage of Greek influence spread across the world.”
Alexander's Empire, p. 8
