By close-ups of the things around us, by focusing on hidden details of familiar objects, by exploring commonplace milieus under the ingenious guidance of the camera, the film, on the one hand, extends our comprehension of the necessities which rule our lives; on the other hand, it manages to assure us of an immense and unexpected field of action.

Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.

All the decisive blows are struck left-handed.

Ideas are to objects as constellations are to stars [translated from Trauerspiel, 1928].

To be happy is to be able to become aware of oneself without fright.

It is only for those without hope that hope is given.

It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.