Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

Karim Ainouz

Marcelo Gomes

Zach Braff

“The way I write is that I'll actually have a conversation out loud with myself. In a weird way, I just kind of get schizophrenic and play two characters.”

Sofia Coppola

“Perhaps it makes sense that a woman whose earliest memory was on the set of Apocalypse Now would grow up to direct a dark fable about five adolescent girls who unapologetically and unceremoniously kill themselves...”

Tony Gatlif

“At the time, it was useless to use words to make the case for the gypsies, so I used music as the key.”

Tim Burton

“I've always loved the idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to completely connect with them. What interests me is taking those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some sort of psychological foundation that makes that possible.”