Isidore Isou

"The flourishing of bursts of energy dies beyond us."

"The rigidity of forms impedes their transmission."

"Radio through television becomes a species of Cinema. Why shouldnt Cinema, in turn, become a species of radio?"

"I desire you, and all that comes with you. If I could only buy you and enjoy you, without having to go through all the formalities, without having to consider your personality et cetera … There is nothing as boring as human personality."

"Our only means of original manifestation is to vomit these old masterpieces. Masterful spittle is our only opportunity to create within the Cinema our masterpieces. Thats what Picasso stands for. He is a creator of deglutition and spittle, of old well-digested canvases."

"There are so many films from which one leaves as stupid as one entered. Id rather give you a migraine than nothing at all … Id rather ruin your eyes than leave you indifferent."

"The Cinema is too rich; it is obese."

"It is said that the public is stupid. Thats why those who hold it in contempt never dare to offer it something original."

"The evolution of art has nothing to do with the revolution of society."

"In my pictures I would use speech as an extra dimension supplementing the image … Speech would not come off the screen in coincidence with the sequences, but from without, as if it were a surplus unconnected with the organism - a cravat of drivel hung on an ivory tooth."

"There is no "worst" in what is new. Everything that has existed is bad, or else no one would have improved upon it by revolution and change."

"Your hissing and your booing make no impression on me, because from Victor Hugos "Ernani" to Bunels "The Age of Gold," Cannes Grand Prize winner, everything I have loved has always been hissed and booed at first At the premiere of "The Age of Gold" the angry audience broke the theatre seats What worse can happen to me, and how can that affect me? The seats do not belong to me"