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André Bazin

“Undoubtedly the novel has means of its own—language not the image is its material, its intimate effect on the isolated reader is not the same as that of a film on the crowd in a darkened cinema—but precisely for these reasons the differences in aesthetic structure make the search for equivalents an even more delicate matter, and thus they require all the more power of invention and imagination from the film-maker who is truly attempting a resemblance. One”

André Bazin, What is Cinema?: Volume 1
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What is Cinema?: Volume 1 What is Cinema?: Volume 1 by André Bazin
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