Dziga Vertov

“We cannot make our eyes better than they are, but we can endlessly perfect the camera.”

“I am an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it.”

“Our path is the path of freeing the camera from its bonds of submission to the storyteller.”

“The film drama is the Opium of the people... down with bourgeois fairytale scenarios... long live life as it is!”

“My path leads to the creation of a fresh perception of the world. Thus I decipher in a new way the world unknown to you.”

“Free of the boundaries of time and space, I coordinate any and all points of the universe, wherever I want them to be.”

“The cine-eye is the possibility of making the invisible visible, the obscure clear, the hidden revealed, the disguised exposed, the acted non-acted, the false true.”

“Kino-Eye is a conquest of space, a conquest of time.”

“Life, caught unawares, is the motto of the ‘Kino-Eye’ group.”

“I am kino-eye. I am a builder.”

“From today, we are liberating the camera and making it work in the opposite direction, away from copying.”

“The script is a fairytale, a literary invention. We reject it.”

“We declare that the old films, the romantic and theatricalized ones, are leprous.”