Zhang Yimou

“To do art, one thing should always remember - subjects of people in misery have deep meanings.”

Billy Bob Thornton

“I can't sit through plays and musical theatre. I just want to run up onstage and mess up their hair and turn over the furniture.”

Kim Ki-duk

“I always ask myself one question: what is human? What does it mean to be human? Maybe people will consider my new films brutal again. But this violence is just a reflection of what they really are, of what is in each one of us to certain degree.”

Xavier Dolan

Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”

Fritz Lang

“I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears...to my constant regret.”

Carl Theodor Dreyer

“Nothing in the world can be compared to the human face. There is no greater experience in a studio than to witness the expression of a sensitive face under the mysterious power of inspiration. To see it animated from inside, and turning into poetry.”

Akira Kurosawa

“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”

Yasujirô Ozu

“I formulated my own directing style in my own head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others… For me there was no such thing as a teacher. I have relied entirely on my own strength.”

Park Chan-wook

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

Nagisa Ôshima

“My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.”

Kôji Wakamatsu

“I don’t think much of critics, so naturally they don’t think much of me either.”

Miguel Gomes

“Cinema is a game.”

Werner Herzog

“It is my duty to direct because the films might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Randy Walker

“I'm not interested in easy, safe emotions, or in ambitious characters who know what they are doing in a film...mostly because I don't know what I'm doing when I make a film.”

João Salaviza

João Canijo

“Throughout these years, women actresses always captivated me much more than men players. I could never find a player that moved me so much as an actress…. I like women. I think they are more complex and stronger and more interesting, giving characters. I have not done any movie in which the protagonist was a man.”

Richard Linklater

“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. ”

Sharunas Bartas

“Sadness is a much more stable emotion in people than happiness.”

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.”