[b. 1930] French-Swiss film director, screenwriter and film critic
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Photography is truth.
Photography is truth. The cinema is truth 24 times per second.
The invention of photography. For whom? Against whom?
There are no more simple images... The world is too much for an image. You need several of them, a chain of images...
Why all these signs around us that make me doubt language and submerge me in meanings, drowning reality instead of extracting it from the imaginary?
When you photograph a face, you photograph the soul behind it.
At a concert you don't listen to every note: you suddenly catch something, then you dream, then you catch something again. You think that's normal for a concert but when you go to the theatre you have to catch every word. That's what I call aesthetic imperialism.
Photography could have been invented in color. Colors existed.
Reportage is interesting only when placed in a fictional context, but fiction is interesting only if it is validated by a documentary context.
