The 'Western' is the only genre whose origins are almost identical with those of the cinema itself.
Andre BazinPhotography can strip from the world that spiritual dust and grime with which our eyes have covered it.
Andre BazinThe essential factor in the transition of the baroque to photography is not the perfecting of a physical process... rather does it lie in a psychological fact, to wit, in completely satisfying our appetite for illusion by a mechanical reproduction in the making of which man plays not part. The solution is not to be found in the result achieved, but in the way of achieving it.
Andre Bazin