I was raised by just my mom. See, my father died when I was eight years old. At least, that's what he told us in the letter.
The film drama is the opium of the people…down with bourgeois fairy-tale scenarios…long live life as it is!
I am an eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, I am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see
I'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it. . . I approach and pull away from objects. I creep under them. I move alongside a running horse's mouth. . . This is I, the machine, manoeuvering in the chaotic movements, recording one movement after another in the most complex combinations. . . Thus I explain in a new way the world unknown to you.
Our eyes see very little and very badly – so people dreamed up the microscope to let them see invisible phenomena; they invented the telescope. . . now they have perfected the cinecamera to penetrate more deeply into the visible world, to explore and record visual phenomena so that what is happening now, which will have to be taken account of in the future, is not forgotten.
I am the camera's eye. I am the machine that shows you the world as I alone see it. Starting from today I am forever free of human immobility. I am in perpetual movement. I approach and draw away from things-I crawl under them-I climb on them-I am on the head of a galloping horse.
My road is towards the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.
All who have been great and good without Christianity would have been much greater and better with it. If there be, amongst the sons of men, a single exception to this maxim, the divine Socrates may be allowed to put in the strongest claim. It was his high ambition to deserve, by deeds, not by creeds, an unrevealed heaven, and by works, not by faith, to enter an unpromised land.
If I feel like I've done the best that I can or conducted myself in the most constructive way that I can in a situation, then I feel peace.
It strikes me as odd that the free exercise of religious faith is sometimes treated as a problem, something America is stuck with instead of blessed with.
An individualist is a man who says: 'I will not run anyone's life - nor let anyone run mine. I will not rule or be ruled. I will not be a master nor a slave. I will not sacrifice myself to anyone - nor sacrifice anyone to myself. '