Pier Paolo Pasolini

“The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.”

Charlie Chaplin

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

Jim Jarmusch

“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ”

Paul Thomas Anderson

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

Zbigniew Rybczynski

“Video for me is a natural next step for film.”

Ladislas Starevich

Stan Brakhage

“There are a lot of movies made for nobody.”

Michael Polish

“Everything's space until you put something there and whatever you put there is going to comment. It's all about information. A doorknob is a doorknob, but if you put in an ornate doorknob, what does that tell you?”

Maya Deren

“The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.”

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Luis Buñuel

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”

David Lynch

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

Guy Maddin

“Whatever I do next, it'll be a horror film.”

Chris Marker

“Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”

Alain Resnais

“I'm always in search of special nonrealistic language that has musicality. ”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”

Dziga Vertov

“I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see.”

Sergei Eisenstein

“Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?”

Jan Švankmajer

“I never call myself an animated filmmaker because I am interested not in animation techniques or creating a complete illusion, but in bringing life to everyday objects.”