Roland Edzard

Vincente Minnelli

“I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. ”

Bob Fosse

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else.”

Ernst Lubitsch

“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”

Gene Kelly

“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn’t catch on right away.”

Jacques Rivette

“What's important for me in a film is that it be alive, that it be imbued with presence, which is basically the same thing. And that this presence, inscribed within the film, possesses a form of magic. There's something profoundly mysterious in this.”

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.”

François Truffaut

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

Stanley Donen

“For me directing is like having sex: when it’s good, it’s very good; but when it’s bad, it’s still good.”

Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Quentin Tarantino

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

John Cassavetes

“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

Wim Wenders

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

Wes Anderson

“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”

Woody Allen

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Alain Resnais

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