“in my view, poetic reasoning is closer to the laws in which thought develops, and thus to life itself, than in the logic of traditional drama”
“complexities of thought and poetic visions of the world do not have to be thrust into the framework of the patently obvious. the usual logic, that of linear sequentially, is uncomfortably like the proof of a geometry phenomenon. As a method, it is incomparably less fruitful artistically than the possibilities opened up by associative linking, which allows for an effective as well as a rational appraisal.”
“It posses an inner power which is concentrated within the image and comes across to the audience in a form of feelings”
“when less than everything has been said about a subject, you can still think on further.”
“poetry is an awareness of the world, a particular way of relating to reality.”
“going beyond the limitations of coherent logic, and conveying the deep complexity and truth of the impalpable connections and hidden phenomena of life.”
“so much, after all, remains in our thoughts and hearts as unrealised suggestion.”
word bank: amorphous, fortuitous, arbitrary, anarchic
I break down reality in “the prism of his perspective and uses a foreshadowing technique of his own to show different sides of reality ”
“You also have to be able to trust solutions which present themselves spontaneously… This, however, is not something to be gauged by deliberations about what devices to ban or allow in your film, but through experience gained by looking at the excesses that found their way into your early productions and which have to be eliminated naturally as your work proceeds”
“a kind of visual manifestation of the contradictions and complexities of life and of artistic creativity”
“Isolated impressions of the day have set off impulses within us, evoked associations; objects and circumstances have stayed in our memory, but with no sharply defined contours, incomplete, apparently fortuitous… it is the especial virtue of cinema, as the most realistic of the arts, to be the means of such communication.”
