1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die Quotes

“THE MAN WITH A MOVIE CAMERA(1929) the 'honesty' of documentary as compared with fiction film, the 'perfection' of the cinematic eye compared with human eye.”
― Steven Jay Schneider, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

“You have got to be good in that town if you want to beat the crowd.' So says young John on his first sight of New York City. THE CROWD (1928)”
― Steven Jay Schneider, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

“GERTRUDE (1964) Three men-her husband, a poet, and a young musician-love her, but because none of them will put his love for her before everything else in his live, she rejects them all, preferring to live celibate in Paris and devote herself to the life of mind. In an epilogue, grown old and still alone, she speaks her epitaph: 'I have known love.”
― Steven Jay Schneider, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

“SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954) 'Without compassion a man is no longer human.' So states Taira.”
― Steven Jay Schneider, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die

“INTOLERANCE (1916) Griffith's design for this film is to juxtapose fours stories from different periods of history that illustrate 'Love's struggle throughout the ages'.”
― Steven Jay Schneider, 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die