Tarsem Singh

“I happen to be like a prostitute in love with the profession.”

Jean-Pierre Dardenne

“The truth is always less interesting than the fiction.”

Tony Gatlif

“At the time, it was useless to use words to make the case for the gypsies, so I used music as the key.”

Park Chan-wook

“The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”

Krzysztof Kieślowski

“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”

Bong Joon-ho

“Human beings basically express their feelings in the same way. They feel the same feelings. If you look at two foreigners talking to each other, you soon can see if they are fighting, or are in love.”

Reha Erdem

Roman Polanski

“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”

Sofia Coppola

“Perhaps it makes sense that a woman whose earliest memory was on the set of Apocalypse Now would grow up to direct a dark fable about five adolescent girls who unapologetically and unceremoniously kill themselves...”

Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

Stanley Kubrick

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

François Truffaut

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

Andrei Zvyagintsev

“As an art-house director I am supposed to hate mainstream films but I saw Peter Jackson's King Kong and liked it. I even cried when I was watching it although in my opinion this film has no artistic value at all.”

Lars von Trier

“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”

Woody Allen

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”

David Lynch

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

Alfred Hitchcock

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

François Ozon

“I think cinema has to deal with desire. In the cinema, you are with a big screen, it is dark, and you watch some images, like a fantasy, so I think it is important for you to feel desire for what you see.”

Guillermo del Toro

“I like actors that are good with pantomime and that can transmit a lot by their presence and attitude more than through their dialogue.”