Mike Newell

“Romantic comedies are backbreaking to write because they have to be fresh. I've yet to find another one which was surprising enough to do.”

Darezhan Omirbaev

“The cinema is an urban art.”

Luc Besson

“Cinema never saved anyone's life, it is not a medicine that will save anyone's life. It is only an aspirin. There are a few directors that I really loved who made like five, six great movies, but are still shooting and they're not good anymore.”

Maximilian Schell

“I'm always interested in the story behind the story.”

Joel Coen

“The characters are the result of two things-first, we elaborate them into fairly well-defined people through their dialogue, then they happen all over again, when the actor interprets them. ”

Ethan Coen

“We create monsters and then we can't control them. ”

Miloš Forman

“The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.”

François Truffaut

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

Jason Reitman

“I don't want to make films that give you the answer. If there is a message to my films - and I hope there isn't - it's to be open-minded.”

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.”

Oliver Hirschbiegel

“All my films in the end are about the human condition, and about humanity.”

Tarsem Singh

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

Jean-Pierre Jeunet

“I wanted to make a fake Paris, a Paris of dreams, like in my head when I was twenty and I arrived in Paris for the first time. I wanted to avoid the bad things: traffic jams, dog shit on the street, the rain.”

Marc Caro

Anurag Kashyap

“From all different perspectives and in a way you can say that these films changed my life and it’s meaning completely for me. Just that one film festival and I decided that this is what I want to be a part of - in next five months I was in Mumbai.”

Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

Ron Howard

“You reach a point where you say you’re not going to do juveniles any longer.”

Ashutosh Gowariker

“The grammar of making a movie and, as far as I can tell, the process is the same be it in America or India.The difference lies in the marketing.”

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.”

Sam Raimi

“I look at myself as an entertainer, more than anything else. I wanted to make the movie a little more different than the previous films… That was less about me growing as a craftsman. That was more about me trying to provide an element to the audience that I thought they might need something different, that came from a different place.”