Louis Malle

“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.”

Aparna Sen

“The problem is I was a star before I became a director. I’m used to people coming to me to sign me. I find it difficult to approach producers.”

Prashant Bhargava

Georg Wilhelm Pabst

“He knows how to create a strange world, whose elements are borrowed from daily life...His characters emerge like his own children, created from fragments of his own heart and mind.”

Harmony Korine

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

Deepa Mehta

“I am not a politician, I am a filmmaker, and although you should be able to distance yourself from your own work and be objective about it, there is so much of your own personal emotions and involvement put into a film.”

Guru Dutt

Roman Coppola

Raj Kapoor

“Our people are gracious and kind. They go to all the trouble to go to a cinema, stand in long queues and procure a ticket. They go through the hustle and bustle, through the blazing sun and the thrashing rain, to see your film, and; as I have always said - if you do not cheat the audience, they are very kind to you. Don't make a fool of them. Do not take them for granted. They may not be as intelligent or as critical as other audiences, but why they have come there, they know: they want to be entertained.”

James Ivory

“All my life, I’ve liked to travel and make movies and I’ve been able to combine the two. But I can’t look at the other cultures through their eyes, I can only look at them through mine, which are the eyes of an American of my generation.”

Ole Bornedal

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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