Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

David Lynch

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”

John Huston

“The directing of a picture involves coming out of your individual loneliness and taking a controlling part in putting together a small world. A picture is made. You put a frame around it and move on.”

Shôhei Imamura

“I show true things using fictional techniques but maintaining truthfulness — that's where my approach differs from Ozu. He wanted to make film more aesthetic. I want to make it more real. He aspired toward a cinematic nirvana. When I was his assistant, I was very opposed to him, but now, whilst still not liking his films, I'm much more tolerant. As for me, I'd like to destroy this premise that cinema is fiction.”

Robert Altman

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”

Kihachi Okamoto

Sam Peckinpah

“The end of a picture is always an end of a life.”

Kinji Fukasaku

“Known primarily in the West for directing such features as Tora! Tora! Tora! (1970) and the controversial Battle Royale (2000), maverick Japanese director Kinji Fukasaku established himself early on with a series of Toei Studio yakuza movies.”

Monte Hellman

“I've been in love with the movies as long as I can remember.”

Hideo Gosha

Dario Argento

“Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.”

Sergio Leone

“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life in jeeps and upset all my dreams.”