Andrea Arnold

“Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them. And why would I pretend to? That's not who I am.”

Clara Law

Kihachiro Kawamoto

“Puppets make their own story, while with cut out animation the story is created by the animator.”

Li Hongqi

Benedek Fliegauf

“The first completed project of my own was the short film Talking Heads… that film already contained everything I would like to deal with over the next decade.”

Park Jung-bum

Takahisa Zeze

Ondi Timoner

“I think the My Suicide is the follow up to We Live in Public in terms of – it is picturing the generation that never knew life without the internet and never knew life without surveillance and living in public. They are in this narrative film that’s a faux-doc, an extremely well edited film. I recommend it. It pictures a certain sort of sickness in youth today and a lot of it has to do with not having a sense of physical intimacy or the psychical un-mediated world. Without the virtual world.”

Thomas Draschan

Bob Fosse

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else.”

Alain Robbe-Grillet

“A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms.”

Walerian Borowczyk

“Eroticism, sex, is one of the most moral parts of life. Eroticism does not kill, exterminate, encourage evil, lead to crime. On the contrary, it makes people gentler, brings joy, gives fulfillment, leads to selfless pleasure.”

Tsai Ming-liang

“The body always plays an important role in my films. You could say the body is the most beautiful thing we have or you could say it’s the ugliest thing we have. We can sell bodies, we can adore or worship bodies.”

Semih Kaplanoğlu

Chris Cunningham

“All I ever do is talk about films and then not make them. As a result I thought: just shut up about it—make a film then talk about it when it's done.”

Yuriy Norshteyn

“Never allow oneself to remain the same – like a river, always renew yourself. I’m always wondering about the paths that would open animation to become a real dramatic art.”

Catherine Breillat

“When I shoot a film, I always project myself into one of the characters, at once into either a man or a woman...”

Jean-Claude Lauzon

Philip Kaufman

“To me, thoughts are fun and art is fun. The strength of our society should not be idle entertainments but the joy of pursuing ideas.”

Elia Suleiman

“The relationship between the moment of truth that you capture and the moment of truth that the spectator captures is incredible. This is what I consider the godliness of communication.”