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.”

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Oliver Stone

“I consider my films first and foremost to be dramas about individuals in personal struggles and I consider myself to be a dramatist before I am a political filmmaker.”

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.”

Paulo Morelli

Alejandro Jodorowsky

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

Brian De Palma

“So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. ”

John Woo

“The movies I like to make are very rich and full of passion. Some people see me as an action director, but action is not the only thing in my movies. I always like to show human nature - something deep inside the heart.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Robert Downey Sr.

“When it goes together with film, it's a beautiful thing. When the right music and the right images go together, they make something else, whatever that is.”

Margaret Brown

Julie Taymor

Spike Lee

“I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.”