The shadows projected on the wall of Plato's cave has been the first cinema.
Volker Schlöndorff
The camera records that special moment of grace — it may be invisible to the eye but on screen you see it immediately.
Volker Schlöndorff
The world is still incomprehensible enough but totally without philosophical concepts it would be unbearable for me.
Volker Schlöndorff
Language is not just words: it is lines, melody, poses; and you can feel whether something is right or wrong even in a language you do not speak.
Volker Schlöndorff
If you start to spell out a film's meaning it gets lost #8212; the meaning has to remain a secret.
Volker Schlöndorff
A definition of the seventh art is not my goal.
Volker Schlöndorff
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