Bruno DumontThinkers

Cinema is a physical thing. It is about creating a physical shock with the audience... it is not about meaning, the idea, or saying something. It is about making a 'shock physique'.

Cinema is a way to make people sensitive through emotions. It is a way to make them feel, to experience empathy on the assumption that people act ethically when they are emotionally touched.

Cinema is all about going back from shadow to light and back and forth... it is a place of transgression.

Cinema is made to film material, namely to film the body. By filming the material, the mechanical, the worker, we arrive at the spiritual.

Cinema builds memories... great films continue to exist in the spectator's mind. A spectator will reconstruct a film he or she has seen, years later, and may even change their original opinion.