Nathaniel Dorsky Quotes

• In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Two, Relaxation

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• Rather, it is the opening or the interruption that allows us to experience what is hidden, and to accept with our hearts our given situation. When film does this, when it subverts our absorption in the temporal and reveals the depths of our own reality, it opens us to a fuller sense of ourselves and our world. It is alive as a devotional form.

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Heart, Reality, Our World

  Nathaniel Dorsky (2003). “Devotional Cinema”

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• Dark and stately is the warm, graceful tenderness of the Sarabande

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Dark, Warm, Tenderness

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• San Francisco's winter is a season unto itself. Fleeting, rain-soaked, verdant, a brief period of shadows and renewal

  Nathaniel Dorsky

  Rain, Winter, San Francisco

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