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“The preoccupation of Rossellini when dealing with the face of the child in Allemania Anno Zero is the exact opposite of that of Kuleshov with the close-up of Mozhukhin. Rossellini is concerned to preserve its mystery.”
― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1

“In point of fact, now that sound has given proof that it came not to destroy but to fulfill the Old Testament of the cinema, we may most properly ask if the technical revolution created by the sound track was in any sense an aesthetic revolution.”
― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1

“Undoubtedly the novel has means of its own—language not the image is its material, its intimate effect on the isolated reader is not the same as that of a film on the crowd in a darkened cinema—but precisely for these reasons the differences in aesthetic structure make the search for equivalents an even more delicate matter, and thus they require all the more power of invention and imagination from the film-maker who is truly attempting a resemblance. One”
― André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1

“Reality is not art, but a realist art is one that can create an integral aesthetic of reality.”
― André Bazin, What is Cinema? Volume I