"Film recognizes neither time nor space, only the limits of man's imagination"
"In the theatre, words are eighty to eighty-five percent of the importance of what is happening to you for your comprehension. In film, words are about twenty percent. It's a different figure, but it's almost an opposite ratio. For the words are only a little bit of embroidery, a little bit of lacework."
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Source: Nicholas Rescher (1990). “Human Interests: Reflections on Philosophical Anthropology”, p.101, Stanford University Press
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