Samuel Fuller

“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”

Terence Fisher

“Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can’t believe, I can’t accept that you die and that’s the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there’s something about the mind that’s more than that.”

Fernando Arrabal

“I almost never come in contact with what we call nature. It scares me, since nature is like death.”

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.”

Errol Morris

“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”

Luis Buñuel

“I distrust reason and culture. In our thoughts there are images that appear suddenly, without us pondering them. In all my films, even the most conventional ones, is the tendency to irrational conduct that can not be explained logically.”

Jack Smith

“I was knocking myself out to make this stuff. And I always assumed that people would see this and have pity and give me a little support. [shouts] They didn’t!”

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Jean Cocteau

“Emotion resulting from a work of art is only of value when it is not obtained by sentimental blackmail. ”

Kenneth Anger

[On unemployed filmmakers] "It seems much easier for these people to rent my films, look at them and make notes, than to give them a job."

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.”

Warren Beatty

“Movies are fun, but they’re not a cure for cancer.”

Gregory J. Markopoulos

“For me, locations and beautiful people have always been the backbone of my work.”

Man Ray

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

Slava Tsukerman

“A lot of people back then didn't understand that the jokes were intentional--now everyone is laughing, nobody doubts that it’s intentional, but back then, it was so new that some people thought it just happened to be unintentional.”

Giorgi Shengelaya

“As a Georgian citizen I feel concern about the severe social and economic situation in the country.”

Suzan Pitt

“Artists often pay a big price for their autonomy...No health insurance, no retirement, often no financial reward. But I like to pretend that I am a cog in the real world, no more or less important than a good carpenter, or an honest politician. That attitude makes me get up in the morning and go to work in the studio.”

Nick Zedd

“We propose that all film schools be blown up and all boring films never be made again.”

David Lynch

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

Andrew Birkin