Raya Martin

“When you see Filipino films in general they are devoid of humour. I guess it’s reflective of the effects of history and we try to laugh everything off but deep down inside it’s a history of sadness.”

Stephen Dwoskin

“I do not reflect on the media, I do my work, I work on people.”

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

“I also regard my films as archival material, which people will dig out in 50 or 100 years, watch, and think, ‘They already did it like that back then,’ or ‘They were still doing it like that.'”

Lucien Castaing-Taylor

Ulrich Seidl

“If I manage to make people laugh with my films and their laughter gets stuck in their throat in the next moment, if I succeed in doing that, then that makes me happy.”

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.”

Ágnes Hranitzky

Shinji Aoyama

“I merely make films about what comes into me from the outside, and making films is about putting what's within me outside again. I consider myself a hollow container. That's what's most important when I make my films. I myself am empty.”

Artavazd Peleshian

“For me, distance montage opens up the mysteries of the movement of the universe. I can feel how everything is made and put together; I can sense its rhythmic movement.”

Hugo Santiago

Han Hyeong-mo

José Luis Guerín

“I don’t see cinema in terms of Spanish, French, European or American. I think we should see cinema as a separate continent; the only continent I understand is the continent of cinema.”

Leighton Pierce

Jacques Tati

“Like a dancer learns to dance ... a visual comic learns to use his legs.”

Nathaniel Dorsky

Jean Epstein

“Is whether they get married in the end really all you want to know? Look, really, there is no film that ends badly, and the audience enters into happiness at the hour appointed on the program.”

Robert Beavers

“A bodily sense of the filming is sustained through the editing; literally the same hand which has operated the camera reaches to complete the image. Even the simplest unwinding and rewinding of the unedited film rolls is part of this process that may release an insight—finding the direction in which all of the parts will fit carefully together.”

Ernie Gehr

Nikos Nikolaidis

“A few days before we started shooting, some weird stangers appeared resembling Che Guevara’s cousins and told me 'Give us your script to read and we’ll let you know whether you should make this movie.' Of course, I gave it to them. Two days later they returned saying 'We like it, you can go ahead.' And I went ahead and shot it.”

Hans-Jürgen Syberberg

“German intellectuals treat me as if I were the enemy. They do not want to hear about what I believe lies at the heart of German identity.”