Cinema is not just a linguistic experience, but, in the sense of linguistic research, it is a philosophical experience.
(Pier Paolo Pasolini)

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.
(Orson Welles)

Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.
(Robert Bresson)

When the flush of a newborn sun fell first on Eden’s green and gold,Our father Adam sat under the Tree and scratched with a stick in the mold; And the first rude sketch that the world had seen was joy to his mighty heart, Till the Devil whispered behind the leaves: “It’s pretty, but is it Art?”
(Rudyard Kipling)

Contemporary is the one who keeps his eye fix on its time to perceive not light, but darkness. Contemporary is the one who receive on his face the ray of darkness which comes from its time.
(Giorgio Agamben)

Life is a gift: by the few to the many, from the ones who have and who know, to the ones who don’t have and who don’t know.
(Amedeo Modigliani “Modi’” )