Carl Theodor Dreyer Quotes

• Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. It is a land one can never tire of exploring. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Inspiration, Expression, Land

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• Imagine that we are sitting in an ordinary room. Suddenly we are told that there is a corpse behind the door. In an instant the room we are sitting in is completely altered; everything in it has taken on another look; the light, the atmosphere have changed, though they are physically the same. This is because we have changed and the objects are as we conceive them. That is the effect I want to get in my film.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Taken, Light, Doors

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• You can't simplify reality without understanding it first.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  Reality, Understanding, Firsts

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• Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face.

  Carl Theodor Dreyer

  World, Faces, Humans

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