Nathaniel Dorsky Quotes

United States, Film Maker
1943

Nathaniel Dorsky is an experimental filmmaker and film editor who has been making films since 1963. He atteneded Antioch College in Yellow Springs, Ohio where he developed his interest in filmmaking. He won an Emmy Award for the film Gauguin in Tahiti: Search for Paradise which was directed by Martin Carr in 1967.

Also known as Film Editor

As for myself, I was trying to see if there was a way I could take meaning, which was at the same time vision, and not have the vision be an ornament to meaning. The vision had to be meaning, but it also still had to be vision.

Nathaniel Dorsky
- Way
- Vision
- Meaning
What I love about the cinema is that you can take people on a journey without breaking the bubble. I think that, when you’re trying to make a film, you want to give this sense of going with the audience to some place neither of you have ever been.

Nathaniel Dorsky
- Journey
- Audience
- Cinema

We view films in the context of darkness. We sit in darkness and watch an illuminated world, the world of the screen. This situation is a metaphor for the nature of our own vision. In the very process of seeing, our own skull is like a dark theatre, and the world we see in front of us is in a sense a screen. We watch the world from the dark theatre of our skull. The darker the room, the more luminous the screen.

Nathaniel Dorsky
- World
- Vision
- Screen
In film, there are two ways of including human beings. One is depicting human beings. Another is to create a film form which, in itself, has all the qualities of being human: tenderness, observation, fear, relaxation, the sense of stepping into the world and pulling back, expansion, contraction, changing, softening, tenderness of heart. The first is a form of theater and the latter is a form of poetry.

Nathaniel Dorsky
- Film
- Poetry
- Theater