Salem Kapsaski

Russ Meyer

“I always had a tremendous interest in big tits.”

Tinto Brass

“A face can be painted over with make-up, conceal its age or impurities; a mouth can spew cruel lies. A butt is definitely more honest than that.”

Nick Zedd

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

Herschell Gordon Lewis

“I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.”

Dario Argento

“Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.”

Mel Brooks

“I cut my finger. That’s tragedy. A man walks into an open sewer and dies. That’s comedy.”

Nikos Nikolaidis

“A few days before we started shooting, some weird stangers appeared resembling Che Guevara’s cousins and told me 'Give us your script to read and we’ll let you know whether you should make this movie.' Of course, I gave it to them. Two days later they returned saying 'We like it, you can go ahead.' And I went ahead and shot it.”

Richard Kern

“Everything else seemed so pretentious, so we were always trying to do stuff that was totally unjustifiable.”

Roman Polanski

“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”

David Cronenberg

“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing their whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.”

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.”

Guy Maddin

“Whatever I do next, it'll be a horror film.”

Jesús Franco

“I feel that cinema should be like a box of surprises, like a magic box. And in that world, anything is allowed to enter, as long as it's always treated with a spirit of 'Pop!'.”

Sokrates Kapsaskis

“If all had the same death, there wouldn’t be any heroes.”

David Lynch

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

Abel Ferrara

“I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself...you're taught not to think too deeply about things.”