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Sergei Eisenstein

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Sergei Eisenstein Quotes

Total quotes: 5

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Sergei Eisenstein

Birthname

AKA: Sergey Eisenstein

Birthplace: Riga, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire

Death: February 11, 1948

Educated At: Saint-Petersburg State University Of Architecture And Civil Engineering

Manner of Death: Natural Causes

Nationality: Soviet Union, Russian Empire

Occupations: Inventor, Film Director, Film Editor, Screenwriter

Spouse: Vera Atasheva

Total quotes: 5

“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, Film Form: Essays in Film Theory

Tagged: Poetry, Waterfalls

“Human expression is a conflict between conditioned and unconditioned reflexes.”

— Sergei Eisenstein

Tagged: Reflexes, expression

“The hieroglyphic language of the cinema is capable of expressing any concept, any idea of class, any political or tactical slogan, without recourse to the help of a rather suspect dramatic or psychological past.”

— Sergei Eisenstein

Tagged: Language, Cinema, Slogans

“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

Tagged: film, Director, human beings, aspirations

“Cinema is the heir of all artistic cultures, as is the nation itself that elevated it for the first time in all history – both in estimation and creatively – to the very heights of art, and it is the heir of all cultures of the preceding ages.”

— Sergei Eisenstein

Tagged: Cinema, Art, nation

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