Andrei Zvyagintsev

“As an art-house director I am supposed to hate mainstream films but I saw Peter Jackson's King Kong and liked it. I even cried when I was watching it although in my opinion this film has no artistic value at all.”

Alexei Popogrebsky

Pyotr Buslov

Igor Voloshin

Aleksandr Veledinsky

Jeremy Moss

“Dear filmmakers, please turn down your soundtracks. I am trying to watch a movie.”

Aliona Polunina

Nastia Tarasova

Prashant Bhargava

Victor Ruano

“There are four elements that make up the foundation of my memories and of my present, that is to say, of me. They gave birth to and laced themselves through all the situations that mold my life.”

Michael Mann

“I cannot just make a film and walk away from it. I need that creative intimacy, and quite frankly, the control to execute my visions, on all my projects.”

Nicolás Alcalá

Harmony Korine

“What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.”

Claire Denis

“Even if it's the dream of a voyage, I think it was very important for me that the film offer the two sides of the globe.”

Wong Kar-wai

“Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it's the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.”

Michael Haneke

“Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer?”

Aleksey Balabanov

“People have always watched and will watch films about bandits.”

Nick Broomfield

“If you’re making a film, it’s more honest to make your presence felt than to hang back furtively on the other side of the room, because no-one really benefits from that. That approach really is, to use the dread word, voyeuristic. You’re there with all your equipment, but pretending you’re not there.”

Bill Plympton

“In a perfect world, I would prefer just to draw all day and make these cartoons. But the problem is, if I work for a big studio, then I would lose a lot of my creative ideas.”

Lucrecia Martel

“From the very beginning, even when I’m writing, I think a lot about the sound. Many elements of my work in cinema come from oral storytelling and oral tradition. I think about sound and the rhythm of the sound.”