Rogério Sganzerla

“By definition cinema is rhythm and movement, gesture and continuity. In everything we see we have to consider three aspects: the position of the eye that is watching, the position of the object being watched and the light that illuminates reality. This way, cinema does not have the sole function of opening a hole in a wall to see, because its mission is greater: to be a window to the world.”

Susumu Hani

“I am interested only in the inside of people.”

Rudolf Thome

Sohrab Shahid Saless

“A Simple Event has no plot. It is only a report on the daily life of a boy.”

Brian De Palma

“So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. ”

José Luis Guerín

“I don’t see cinema in terms of Spanish, French, European or American. I think we should see cinema as a separate continent; the only continent I understand is the continent of cinema.”

Michael Mann

“I cannot just make a film and walk away from it. I need that creative intimacy, and quite frankly, the control to execute my visions, on all my projects.”

Claire Denis

“Even if it's the dream of a voyage, I think it was very important for me that the film offer the two sides of the globe.”

Jean Rollin

“The fantastic cinema is always a good vehicle for discussing certain political ideas in the form of symbols and metaphors.”

Vincent Gallo

“I constantly try to reinvent my sensibilities and my ideas. I enjoy some of the satisfaction that I get when I feel good about what I've done. But the process is quite lonely and quite painful.”

Hou Hsiao-hsien

“The main thing is for the actors to forget the camera. They have to act as if they are working in a documentary.”

Philippe Garrel

“Cinema is Freud plus Lumière.”

Sharunas Bartas

“Sadness is a much more stable emotion in people than happiness.”

Paul Verhoeven

“People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and he can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness and he'd walk out or fall asleep.”

Terrence Malick

“[On Badlands (1973)] I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time, like Treasure Island. I hoped this would, among other things, take a little of the sharpness out of the violence, but still keep its dreamy quality.”

Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

Takeshi Kitano

“Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.”

Wong Kar-wai

“Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it's the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.”

Jesús Franco

“I feel that cinema should be like a box of surprises, like a magic box. And in that world, anything is allowed to enter, as long as it's always treated with a spirit of 'Pop!'.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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