Kim Ji-woon

“I don’t know yet which genre I’m best at so I have to try lots of different ones! I don’t want to repeat a genre that I’ve already done because working with a variety of styles inspires me and gives me more cinematic energy.”

Claire Denis

“Even if it's the dream of a voyage, I think it was very important for me that the film offer the two sides of the globe.”

Nuri Bilge Ceylan

“In my films the landscapes connect the characters to a sense of something cosmic. I try to recapture those moments in life where you suddenly feel that connection to a wider universe.”

Andrea Arnold

“Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them. And why would I pretend to? That's not who I am.”

Sam Mendes

“I think movies are a director's medium in the end. Theater is the actor's medium. Theater is fast, and enjoyable, and truly rewarding. I believe in great live performance.”

Darren Aronofsky

“To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.”

Asghar Farhadi

Spike Jonze

“Being able to shoot on videos and commercials — just being on the set, with only a certain amount of time and shots and sequences to do in that amount of time, learning how to work with the crew the physical production and the limitations — is all good training.”

Francis Ford Coppola

“I'm in a unique situation. I'm like now an elderly retired guy who made a lot of money, and now I can just, instead of playing golf, I can make art films.”

Jerzy Skolimowski

Zack Snyder

“In the zombie movie world, that's how you affirm your friendship. When someone really loves you, they blow your head off.”

Frank Darabont

“A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.”

Michel Gondry

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

Michael Haneke

“Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer?”

Jacques Doillon

“Outside cinema, I’m nothing, so I refrain…”

Robert Aldrich

“A director is a ringmaster, a psychiatrist and a referee.”

David Fincher

“I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.”

Brillante Mendoza

“I like to make movies based on real life stories that depict Philippines.”

Patric Chiha

“What moves me in a film is not the plot. It's the special way you look at it.”

Mahamat-Saleh Haroun

“I love Bresson: he understood everything about the cinema. I like his bare, strained style, his elegance. Pickpocket is a lesson of cinema.”