Jean Cocteau Quote

Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.


As quoted in The Super 8 Book (1975) by Lenny Lipton (ed. Chet Roaman); also in Aesthetic Aspects of Recent Experimental Film (1980) by Barry Walter Moore, Garth S. Jowett, p. 6


Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.

Film will only become an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper.