Outline of Film - Essence of Film

Famous quotes containing the words essence of, essence and/or film:

“The essence of spirit, he thought to himself, was to choose the thing which did not better one’s position but made it more perilous. That was why the world he knew was poor, for it insisted morality and caution were identical.”
—Norman Mailer (b. 1923)

“What essence is to generation, that truth is to belief.”
—Plato (c. 427–347 B.C.)

“You should look straight at a film; that’s the only way to see one. Film is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.”
—Werner Herzog (b. 1942)