Sammi Cheng

Joe Eszterhas

“Screenwriters are supposed to be neither seen nor heard. I certainly violated that rule. Among others.”

Wang Hongwei

Zhao Tao

“People say that if you can work with Jia Zhangke, you can work with anyone.”

Anita Mui

“Instant shining is not eternity. Show business is a hard life. I wonder how many people will remember me after I leave the business for good. My hope is that when they feel bored and look at the stars in the sky, people will think of my name.”

Carl Sagan

Jim Broadbent

“The world would be a duller place without Moulin Rouge.”

Nicholas St. John

Michael Ballhaus

“You never stop learning. I’m still learning everyday on every picture.”

Gloria Grahame

“I don’t think I ever understood Hollywood.”

Joe Hisaishi

Denis Lavant

“For me, a role isn’t just a face and a voice, and the great actor that I admire are those who use their body to give a shape to their character, for example Marlon Brando, whose acting has so much style.”

Tôru Takemitsu

“The composer is like an actress who is very beautiful but may not be a great actress. A good director can make her a great actress – and a big star! So, like that I am expecting a good filmmaker to make me a good film composer!”

Jean-Yves Escoffier

Raymond Chandler

“A good story cannot be devised; it has to be distilled. ”

Lesley Manville

“It gets easier as you get older because life deals its particular hand and our experiences get deeper, richer, more profound.”

George Carlin

“Don't sweat the petty things and don't pet the sweaty things.”

Leslie Shatz

Andrew Dickson

Hualampong Riddim

Kenji Kawai

“I prefer to compose melancholic music.”

Francis Ng

Anthony Wong Chau-Sang

“There are always challenges coming, in life, everyday. You'd be surprise. If I got a good script that would be another challenge. Unfortunately we don't have lot of good writers.”

Irm Hermann

Vincent Cassel

“My father is best known for his light comedies, and I'm best known for crazy bad guys with short tempers.”

Veronica Cartwright

Dave Chappelle

“I see that they put every black man in the movies in a dress at some point in his career.”

Susumu Terajima

DJ Shadow

Emmanuel Lubezki

“Artificial light is simple. It is a specific color temperature and feel. But, natural light is complex and sometimes chaotic. A bounce from the floor or a reflection from the sky can do so much.”