Sergei Parajanov

“I believe you have to be born a director. It’s like a child’s adventure: you take the initiative among other children and become a director, creating a mystery. You mould things into shape and create.”

Robert Bresson

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

Aleksandr Sokurov

“The surface of the screen and that of the canvas are one and the same.”

Alain Bergala

Hayao Miyazaki

“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

Ingmar Bergman

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

Alain Resnais

“I'm always in search of special nonrealistic language that has musicality. ”