Stanley Kauffmann: Self
Quotes
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Stanley Kauffmann : The one common factor that everyone has, whether he's a peasant in Bolivia or the Pope in the Vatican, is that in some way film has touched him. In some way.
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Stanley Kauffmann : [referring to Vachel Lindsay] He saw something that other saw to; but, he saw it more keenly and more memorably. And he wrote about it, that the arrival of film was a key moment in the history of human consciousness. That it was going to change the way people thought, dreamed, fantasized. The way they *shaped* their inner-selves.
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Stanley Kauffmann : Into the film world came Vachel Lindsay, who wrote what is really the first serious book about film in this country, called, "The Art of the Moving Picture." It was published in 1915.
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Stanley Kauffmann : Earliest criticism was written by people that who had not grown up in an era of film. They were discovering film, so to speak, as they were writing about it.
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Stanley Kauffmann : The times that film criticism had influenced film making, that doesn't matter. What does matter, I think, is that good film makers are happy that they exist in a culture in which good criticism exists.
