| The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996. |
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| NUMBER: | 41470 |
| QUOTATION: | The fact remains that, when living person is set before living person—actor before spectator—a certain deliberate conventionalizing is demanded of the former if the aesthetic impression is not to be lost, whereas in the film, in which immediately a measure of distance is imposed between image and spectator, greater approaches to real forms may be permitted, even though these have to exist alongside impossibilities and fantastic symbols far removed from the world around us. This is the paradox of cinematic art. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | Allardyce Nicoll (b. 1894), U.S. educator, critic. “Film Reality: The Cinema and the Theatre,” Film and Theatre, Crowell (1936). |
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| | | The Columbia World of Quotations. Copyright © 1996 Columbia University Press. |
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