Movies are an industry. [French] Ann Malraux: "An Introduction to Film Psychology"

Film and television are a special combination of free art and fine art. [Morocco] Hassan II: "The Challenge"

Film is an art that directly touches the audience's vision and hearing through specific images, especially character images. [Middle] Zhang Junxiang: "About the Special Expression Means of Film"

Film is a visual art like sculpture and painting, and music is an auditory art. It is an art that combines vision with audiovisual. [Middle] Zhang Yaojun: "On the Aesthetic Nature of Film Art"

For film to become an independent art, it begins with the liberation of perspective. Therefore, film is also called the art of perspective. [Middle] Zhang Yaojun: "On the Aesthetic Nature of Film Art"

Film can express everything. There is no other artistic method that can convey what it wants to express to the broadest audience as quickly as it can. in front of an audience. [Italian] West Zavattini: "Talk About Movies"

The power of a film lies in its ability to tell a story. [French] Ann Malraux: "An Introduction to the Psychology of Film"

A great film is one whose meaning is so fresh, imaginative, fascinating or exciting that it makes us understand A new perspective on life. [US] Paul Kael: "Movies - The Art of Despair"

Movies have finally satisfied the concept and desire to recreate the world in the image of the world itself. [US] Scott Cavell: "The World Seen"

I hope that the movie can convey the true eyes, criticize the fallacies of politics and society, and strive for the happiness of the masses. [Japan] Sapphire Yamamoto: "My Film Career"

Because movies do not directly express abstract concepts, they rely on metaphors to survive. [Meaning] Pipa Pasolini: "The Cinema of Poetry"

Whether it is in a movie or a play, any event will cause hallucinations as long as the basic points are expressed. [Germany] Rue Einham: "Film as Art"

Movie images are both two-dimensional and three-dimensional. 〔Germany〕Ruth Patriot Ham: "Film as Art"

Movies enjoy far greater freedom in time and space than drama. [Germany] Rue Einham: "Film as Art"

The nature of photography remains in the nature of film. 〔Germany〕Zi Kracauer: "The Nature of Cinema"

In a good movie there is always an element of real drama. [Soviet] Meyerhold: "Meyerhold Conversations? Others"

Film connects painting and drama, music and sculpture, architecture and dance, landscape and characters, visual images and vocal language. A unified whole. [Su] Eisenstein: "Collected Essays on Aesthetics"

Movies fully possess the power to directly infect the audience with visual images. [Su] Pudovkin: "On the Characteristics of Art"

The unparalleled special potential of film can be explained as follows: it is the dynamization of space, which can also be said to be the spatialization of time. . [US] O. Panofsky: "The Style and Expression of Film"

In terms of its presentation method, the film is "like" a dream: it creates an illusory present, a direct The process of presentation. [US] Susan Lange: "Emotion and Form? A Brief Discussion of Film"

Movies not only get rid of the limitations of space, but also get rid of the limitations of time. [US] Susan Lange: "Emotion and Form? A Brief Discussion of Film"

"Poetic film" is actually based on creative style as the basic starting point, and in most cases, this The intention to create style is sincere. [Italian] Pipa Pasolieux: "The Cinema of Poetry"

Movies are very convenient in describing details, so movies and novels are very similar. [Chinese] Xia Yan: "Several Issues in Writing Movie Scripts"

Generally speaking: the stage allows it and must have virtuality, but movies never allow it. [Chinese] Zhao Dan: "Gates of Hell"

There are two differences in film techniques. One form is equivalent to the language of poetry in movies; the other form is equivalent to the language of novels. language. [French] Jean Mitry: "The Aesthetics and Psychology of Film"

When a film is purely documentary, it will inevitably damage art. [French] Jean Mitry: "The Aesthetics and Psychology of Film"

The content expressed by the close-up is the most concrete, but the meaning it allows you to understand is the most abstract.

[French] Jean Mitry: "The Aesthetics and Psychology of Film"

Metaphors are difficult to express in movies, unless the form of comparison is related to the original plot, or at least it should be the same as the object being compared. in a space. [French] Jean Mitry: "The Aesthetics and Psychology of Film"

Generally speaking, one of the basic requirements of a film is to guide the audience to pay attention to various aspects of the developing plot in an orderly manner. This is the basic technique of the film. [Su] Pudovkin: "Selected Papers of Pudovkin"

It is necessary to establish an organic connection between the performance and the cinematographic process, so as to create a state where expressions can be expressed without the need for words. - This is very similar to Dürer's engravings. [U.S.] O. Panofsky: "Style and Expression Methods of Film"

The lens represents the eyes, but it represents two kinds of eyes, one is the audience's eyes, and the other is the drama's eyes. In the eyes of others. [Center] Xia Yan: "Some Issues in Writing Movie Scripts"

Seeing things through a lens is different from seeing things with the naked eye. The most obvious difference is that there is a box when looking at things through a lens. The naked eye does not. [Middle] Zheng Junli: "Voiceover"

The camera angle not only determines whether the actor's performance can be absorbed, but more importantly, it can give additional meaning to the object. [Middle] Zheng Junli: "Voiceover"

The organic combination of camera scheduling and actor scheduling is the basic requirement for movie scene scheduling, and it is also the important difference between movie scene scheduling and stage scene scheduling. [Chinese] Zheng Junli: "Voiceover"

A static scene in a film is not static, and an empty shot is not empty. The quiet scene is precisely when emotions are most intense. [Center] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

Once the upper and lower shots are connected, the unusually rich meanings hidden in each shot are emitted like electric sparks. [Hungary] Béla Balazs: "Film Aesthetics"

Whether a film has accurate rhythm and balance depends on montage. [French] Jean Mitry: "The Aesthetics and Psychology of Film"

Montage is an art that expresses things and expresses meaning through the combination of lenses. [French] Jean Mitry: "The Aesthetics and Psychology of Film" Aesthetics and Psychology"

Montage is to appropriately combine the filmed scenes so that each scene is of appropriate length in time. [French] Jean Mitri: "The Aesthetics and Psychology of Film"

The foundation of film art is montage. [Su] Pudovkin: "New Edition of Aesthetics"

The alignment of the two montage shots is not the sum of two numbers, but more like the product of two numbers. [Su] Eisenstein: "Montage in 1938"

No matter what two shots are put together, they will inevitably be connected into a new quality that emerges from this alignment. New appearance. [Su] Eisenstein: "Montage in 1938"

The power of montage is that it incorporates the emotions and reason of the audience into the creative process, so that the audience has to use the author to create the image. The same creative path I have experienced. [Su] Eisenstein: "Montage in 1938"

As long as film directors discover it, every trivial thing will become a gold mine. If the gold diggers finally mine this infinitely rich gold mine of reality, movies will play an important role in society. [Italian] Western Zavattini: "Talk About Movies"

A film director has no dictionary, he only has endless possibilities. He does not take his image symbols from a cabinet or a bag, he chooses his image symbols from the chaotic world. [Meaning] Pipa Pasolini: "The Cinema of Poetry"

There is no formula that can help people grasp the position where they can best see the characteristics of things; this is a question of perception. [Germany] Lu Einham: "Film as Art"

In a good film, every scene must be carefully planned at the script stage so that it can be completed in the shortest possible time. Perform everything necessary (and only necessary). [Germany] Rue Einham: "Film as Art"

The perfect combination of meaning and style is always the result of the director's imaginative grasp of the story material and his complete control of the production process . [US] Paul Kael: "Movies - The Art of Despair"

Movies must always pay attention to the interests of the public. [India] Prem Chand: "Film and Literature"

The film director is the tour guide of the story.

[Center] Xia Yan: "Some Issues in Writing Movie Scripts"

Movies are the most refined art. Because of their simplicity, they must be explained clearly. [Center] Xia Yan: "Several Issues in Writing Movie Scripts"

The director is a writer, a writer who writes through the lens. [Middle] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

Film creation is centered on the director. This is an indisputable law of film art that has been recognized by the world. [Middle] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

Success can only be achieved when the director embraces the work with all his heart and soul. [Chinese] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

To visualize the creative intention, selecting actors becomes the director's top priority. [Chinese] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

If there are real artistic requirements for talkie actors, not just craftsmanship, then talkie actors should be more technically sophisticated than stage actors. More, and more perfect. [Soviet] Stanislavsky: "The Complete Works of Stanislavsky"

The actor's art is different from other arts. Only one's own body and mind are not only the creator, but also the tool and tool of creation. The finished product of creation is said to be one thing but three tasks. [Chinese] Zhao Dan: "Gate of Hell"

The first thing to look for an actor is image and temperament, and the second is acting skills. The audience must first believe that he "is", and if he doesn't "be", then the acting skills will Good things come in vain, which is not quite the same as a drama. [Middle] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

The basic skills of a film actor are different from those of actors in other dramas. The performance requires a more life-like and natural performance without any trace of acting. [Middle] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

Any good actor must first have two basic skills: one is to be relaxed in front of the camera; the other is to concentrate during filming. Able to enter prescribed situations quickly. [Middle] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

Close shots and close-ups are the basic skills of film actors. [Chinese] Xie Jin: "Xie Jin Talks about Art"

A movie actor must act as if he is not performing at all, but just a real-life person caught on camera in the act. 〔Germany〕Zi Kracauer: "The Nature of Cinema"

If the film is to appear natural and meaningful, then the performance must be different from both the stage style and real daily life . [US] O. Panofsky: "Movie Style and Expression Methods"

In an actor's performance, it is very important to grasp the tone of the character's image. 〔Chinese〕Zheng Junli: "Voice-over? The starting point of the director's learning"