Samouel Khachikian

Masud Kimiai

Giulio Petroni

Emilio Vieyra

Elio Petri

“Making a movie today needs a lot of madness and a lot of love for cinema. And most probably this is the only positive side of the whole matter.”

Cesare Canevari

Chu Yen-ping

Sisworo Gautama Putra

Shin Sang-ok

Jackie Chan

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”

Yilmaz Güney

“Those who sing revolutionary songs when everything is quiet prefer to hide behind doors when things get difficult.”

Věra Chytilová

“I have no desire to cuddle my audience.”

Arne Mattsson

Jörg Buttgereit

“The society gets the films it deserves.”

Werner Herzog

“It is my duty to direct because the films might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Jerzy Skolimowski

Dušan Makavejev

“You just see so many movies that at some point it becomes part of your life...Movies always follow us as reference material or as some kind of dreamlike material for dealing with things we don't understand in our lives. Movies give us solutions, or provide a whispering commentary on what is happening around us.”

José Bénazéraf

“You have to be perverse. Not brutal. Not ignorant. You have to put some sadism in it. Put all that stuff in the movie and you’ll make a good sex movie.”

Miklós Jancsó

“An artist should be able to create his own autonomous world, but making a film depends on so many extraneous factors that I don’t really think it’s an authentic form of art.”

Teuvo Tulio