Quotes from Sergei Eisenstein

Language is much closer to film than painting is.

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?

Down the steps, ...over the corpses, ...careers the pram with the child.

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.