Flb Quote by Francesca Lia Block

“A photograph is a poem without words”

— Holace

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

— Orson Welles

The poem has to bear the weight with image, language... the screenplay with dialogue, plot.

— Julianna Baggott

To make a film you have to dream a film... that's true of poetry as well.

— Frank Bidart

“My aim is to place cinema among the other art forms. To put it on a par with music, poetry, prose, etc.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky

“Without art, a film is pure wastage of time and resources.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“The historical fact is that cinema was constituted as such by becoming narrative, by presenting a story, and by rejecting its other possible directions.…

— Gilles Deleuze

Film has its own innate poetry.

— John Hillcoat

Making films is about having absolute and foolish confidence; the challenge for all of us is to have the heart of a poet and…

— Mira Nair

Film relates to almost every other form of expression, but poetry is a bit abstract in its strength and sometimes even the white spaces…

— Jim Jarmusch

“The photos stirred feelings she couldn't quite frame in words, and this, she decided, must mean they were true works of art.”

— Celeste Ng

“A poet is someone who can use a single image to send a universal message.”

— Andrei Tarkovsky