The Phenomena of the Soul

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The phenomena on the screen are the phenomena of the soul. – Carl Hauptman

Movies won’t be an art until the materials are as inexpensive as paper and pencil. – Jean Cocteau

Edison is the new Gutenberg. He has invented the new printing. The state that realizes this may lead the soul of America, day after tomorrow. – Vachel Lindsay

When the spirit of the people is lower than at any other time during this depression, it is a splendid thing that for just fifteen cents an American can go to a movie and look at the smiling face of a baby and forget his troubles. – Franklin Delano Roosevelt

What a good idea of mine it was to have taken possession of the film industry on behalf of the Reich several years ago! – Joseph Goebbels

The cinema is for us the most important instrument of all the arts. – Nikolai Lenin

The cinema in the hands of the Soviet power represents a great and priceless force. –Joseph Stalin

Cinema was and remains one of the major battlefields of the ideological struggle raging in the world today. – Nikolai V. Podgorny

The Chinese call movies “Electric Shadows.” – Jonas Mekas

The coming of the Motion Picture was as important as that of the printing press. – William Randolph Hearst

On the spiritual plane, the cinema is an invention every whit as impotant as, on the material plane, the freeing of nuclear energy. – Jean Debrix