This document discusses key aspects of media language in film through quotes from famous directors and definitions of cinematic techniques. It provides quotes about film's ability to manipulate time from Tarkovsky and its betrayal of reality from Truffaut. Directors like David Lean and Federico Fellini discuss their storytelling through film. Techniques defined include mise-en-scene, mise-en-shot, editing styles like continuity and montage, and uses of diegetic and non-diegetic sound.