Jacques Rozier

James Gray

“What I’m after, making a film, is the most exact transcript of my most intimate impressions of behavior”

Johnnie To

“Hollywood can't do this. But we can: we can change things whenever we want.”

Vincente Minnelli

“I allow an area for improvisation because the chemical things actors bring to stories make it not work. ”

Charles Burnett

“The impetus was the whole Civil Rights Movement and we felt we had a responsibility to reflect reality, tell the truth about the black community. To help, however we can, to march the social movement forward.”

Jean Rouch

“I don’t think there’s any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same subject,—a discovery of the “Other,” an exploration of difference.”

D.W. Griffith

“A film without a message is just a waste of time.”

Alan Rudolph

“I'm me, I live from film to mouth.”