Lav Diaz

“You look at the industry; they’re distorting everything, its very escapist. It’s all about vanity, about making money, about seeking fame and fortune.”

Huang Weikai

“I told myself not to be concerned with what a documentary “should be like”, or to worry about the meaning of “vérité” or “truth.” Both a documentary and a feature are films observing different sets of rules.”

Jem Cohen

Masahiro Shinoda

“It is much more fun to look at evil than to look at good!”

Henri Plaat

“To register, I want to register places and things before it gets destroyed by modernity and progression. Before it is lost forever.”

Seijun Suzuki

“I was never rebellious, I was just mischievous!”

Marco Ferreri

“The values that once existed no longer exist. The family, the bourgeoisie—I’m talking about values, morals, economic relationships. They no longer serve a purpose. My films are reactions translated into images.”

Bert Haanstra

Harun Farocki

“Ten years on it’s always the article on the back of the newspaper cutting that’s of interest, but half a column is missing.”

Frederick Wiseman

“There are lots of different ways to make film. I don’t believe there has to be any orthodox way to making movies, or any rules. It’s what works for the filmmaker, and, theoretically, the audience.”

Juan López Moctezuma

“Movies are for me a magical instrument... It's a way of building other worlds.”

D.A. Pennebaker

“You don’t necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it—that’s the truest form of drama.”

Mani Kaul

“I made films because I wanted to make films. I didn’t do it with the intention of giving the audience a message. The act of making a film is a social act.”

Tengiz Abuladze

“Much of _Repentance_ consists of images I have seen in my dreams. I am certain that it was through dreams that my unconscious forced the story to the surface so that I would film it.”

William Klein

“The kinetic quality of New York, the kids, dirt, madness—I tried to find a photographic style that would come close to it.”

Bruce Conner

“With the Ford Foundation grant all of a sudden instead of being an artist that had made a couple of short films, I became a filmmaker who dabbled in the arts.”

Audrius Stonys

“I love silence. Silence is a powerful tool in cinema language. It gives space for the imagination and contemplation. Silence is not a hole in a soundtrack. It has many colours and meanings.”

Dušan Hanák

“To be a film director is a risky job.”

Carmelo Bene

“[Cinema] it’s the celebration of the Lumière Brothers. That is: since the Lumière period, what has come out of it? If you exclude that minimum of "self-fright” sought at all costs, or that hint of bewilderment in certain African tribes, at the sight of that train. The Lumières… I think their commemoration goes on since 19th century. The same one which has been perpetuated.”

Želimir Žilnik