The critic must write against the grain of accepted interpre... - Siegfried Kracauer

"The critic must write against the grain of accepted interpretations and safe conclusions."

Siegfried Kracauer Courage

Sociologist Critic German-American 1889–1966

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"The cinema is the most important art form of our time."

"Photography is truth at twenty-four frames per second."

"Mass ornament reveals the rationality of the modern age."

"History is not what happened, but what is recorded."

"Never let fear stop you from chasing your dreams."

"Courage is being afraid but doing it anyway."

"Sometimes you gotta do what you gotta do."

"Sometimes you have to be the monster to stop the monsters."