Hong Sang-soo

“When I finish a film, I feel like I have overcome a certain hurdle. It's really good for me as a human being, and I hope that for some people, my films will do the same thing.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Max Ophüls

“Paris, which had always amused me on holiday, was too lovely… Emigration was no hardship, it was an outing. It offered the shining wet boulevards under the street lights, breakfast in Monmartre with cognac in your glass, coffee and lukewarm brioche, gigolos and prostitutes at night… Everyone in the world has two fatherlands: his own and Paris.”

Henri-Georges Clouzot

“I want only to tell a story. I think movies are entertainment. If at the same time you can get across something you feel, that is perfect.”

Jacques Tati

“Like a dancer learns to dance ... a visual comic learns to use his legs.”

Fabián Bielinsky

Daniel Burman

“I don’t love film in itself; it’s not like I was debating the merits of using different types of camera-work, like traveling shots. I love film because it’s a story-telling tool.”

Michel Gondry

“Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.”

Steven Spielberg

“I think that the Internet is going to effect the most profound change on the entertainment industries combined. And we're all gonna be tuning into the most popular Internet show in the world, which will be coming from some place in Des Moines. We're all gonna lose our jobs. We're all gonna be on the Internet trying to find an audience.”

Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

Gus Van Sant

“I have my ideas of what a good documentary is, but drama is a different animal because you're arranging everything.”

Rob Reiner

“Everybody talks about wanting to change things and help and fix, but ultimately all you can do is fix yourself. And that's a lot.”

Wes Anderson

“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”

Paul Thomas Anderson

“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”

Richard Linklater

“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. ”

Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

François Truffaut

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”