Wes Anderson

“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”

Louis Malle

“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.”

John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

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.”

Claude Jutra

Robert Aldrich

“A director is a ringmaster, a psychiatrist and a referee.”

Alain Resnais

“I'm always in search of special nonrealistic language that has musicality. ”

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.”

Agnès Varda

“I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.”

Pier Paolo Pasolini

“The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.”

Michel Gondry

“Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

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.”

Jean Cocteau

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

François Truffaut

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

Jean-Luc Godard

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