Patrice Leconte

“You may think it’s very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.”

Irving Rapper

Anatole Litvak

“If I shoot one take of a scene, I am Eason! If I shoot 100 takes of a scene, I am Litvak!”

Michael Lehmann

Sam Peckinpah

“The end of a picture is always an end of a life.”

Phil Joanou

Gary Ross

“Family entertainment is really very necessary in our culture. Look how profitable they are. It's almost not discretionary. You need to take your family to the movies.”

Elia Suleiman

“The relationship between the moment of truth that you capture and the moment of truth that the spectator captures is incredible. This is what I consider the godliness of communication.”

Sarah Polley

“Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.”

Tobias Lindholm

“A good story is a construction. You take the elements that bring a situation forward, and develop it up so that the audience feel something. But a really good story stands out, when the construction is neither seen nor felt. This is what I struggle every day to achieve, to throw sand over my tracks, let the structure disappear in the background.”

Thomas Vinterberg

“The Dogma Manifesto was a wonderful opportunity to be a team, to unite the country’s filmmakers. But we’ve all sought out other paths, we distanced ourselves from a movement that was becoming a brand, and would have ended up limiting our creativity.”

Mark Duplass

“Most people have one independent film in them, because it’s so hard. And then they’re like, “Thank God I made it through. Now I’m gonna go make studio movies.” Then they keep waiting for studio movies to be made. The thing is, I am willing to hang lights and suffer and keep doing it over and over again because I kind of like it. It’s the same thing that makes you want to go camping. You get into it.”

Tom Savini

“I think of special effects as magic tricks, as illusion. ”

Peter Strickland

Herb Gardner

Kathryn Bigelow

“I've spent a fair amount of time thinking about what my aptitude is, and I really think it's to explore and push the medium. It's not about breaking gender roles or genre traditions.”

Kirby Dick

“After watching what happened for 20 years with the ratings board and all the criticism from critics, filmmakers, even people around the country, and nothing changing at all, I felt it was really time to set out to make a film.”

William Wyler

“I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.”

Ken Loach

“A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.”

Lana Wachowski

“We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.”