Steven Soderbergh

“To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.”

Paul Greengrass

David Cronenberg

“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing their whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.”

Wes Anderson

“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”

Paul Thomas Anderson

“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”

Werner Herzog

“It is my duty to direct because the films might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Errol Morris

“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”

Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

Quentin Tarantino

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

Tobe Hooper

“No matter where you’re going it’s the wrong place.”

John Carpenter

“In France, I'm an auteur; in Germany, a filmmaker; in Britain, a genre film director; and, in the USA, a bum.”