Alexandre Astruc

“After having been successively a fairground attraction, an amusement analogous to boulevard theatre, or a means of preserving the images of an era, [cinema] it is gradually becoming a language. By language, I mean a form in which and by which an artist can express his thoughts, however abstract they may be, or translate his obsessions exactly as he does in the contemporaryessay or novel. That is why I would like to call this new age of cinema the age of caméra-stylo (camera-pen).”