Ben Russell

Paul Sharits

Kurt Kren

David Lynch

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

Lars von Trier

“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”

Stan Brakhage

“There are a lot of movies made for nobody.”

Guy Maddin

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

Ben Rivers

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

“I, as a filmmaker, treat my works as I do my own sons or daughters. I don't care if people are fond of them or despise them, as long as I created them with my best intentions and efforts.”

Andrew Kötting

“I wouldn't think of myself as a feature film-maker. I'm just making longer pieces of work.”

Jan Švankmajer

“I never call myself an animated filmmaker because I am interested not in animation techniques or creating a complete illusion, but in bringing life to everyday objects.”

Peter Greenaway

“I want to regard my public as infinitely intelligent, as understanding notions of the suspension of disbelief and as realizing all the time that this is not a slice of life, this is openly a film.”

Derek Jarman

“I wouldn’t wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.”