René Viénet

Leonid Gaidai

William Castle

“Don’t be embarrassed about opening your mouth and letting rip with all you’ve got, because the person in the seat right next to you, will probably be screaming too!”

Pierre Étaix

“There are not properly funny situations, there are only dramatic situations which cause to laugh.”

Jacques Tati

“Like a dancer learns to dance ... a visual comic learns to use his legs.”

Joseph Guzman

Marina Abramović

Radu Mihăileanu

Ion Popescu-Gopo

Salvador Dalí

“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.”

Guy Debord

“In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.”

Peter Sempel

Leni Riefenstahl

“I feel as though I have lived many lives, experienced the heights and depths of each and like the waves of the ocean, never known rest. Throughout the years, I have looked always for the unusual, for the wonderful, for the mysteries at the heart of life. ”

Marcel Duchamp

“The creative act is not performed by the artist alone; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act.”

Man Ray

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

Georges Méliès

“We sat with our mouths open, without speaking, filled with amazement.”

Terry Gilliam

“You get trapped by stories. Though I've got this reputation for being out of control, it's not true, it just happens to be a more interesting story than the truth.”

Park Chan-wook

“The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.”

Norman McLaren

“For myself, indeed, with an abstract film, the most pleasing forms are those which come closest to music. There must be visual equivalence.”

Valie Export

“If women abandon their husbands and children, and society tolerates their action both legally and socially, as it does in the case of a man; if women achieve all this – then they will develop an equally copious creativity.”