John Cassavetes

“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Fritz Lang

“I should say that I was a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears...to my constant regret.”

Vincente Minnelli

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

Spike Jonze

“Being able to shoot on videos and commercials — just being on the set, with only a certain amount of time and shots and sequences to do in that amount of time, learning how to work with the crew the physical production and the limitations — is all good training.”

Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

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.”

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.”

Alejandro Amenábar

“I wouldn't say I'm a very controlling person. For instance, when I talk to the actors, I don't tell them exactly what I want because I want them to surprise me. I even encourage them to change some of the verses of the script if they need to.”

Krzysztof Kieślowski

“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”

Bertrand Blier

“The relations between men and women are constantly evolving and it’s interesting to show people leading the lifestyle of tomorrow.”

Pascal Thomas

Takeshi Kitano

“Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.”

Nanni Moretti

“Who doesn't speak well doesn't think well and doesn't live well! It's necessary to find the right words: words are important! ”

Wim Wenders

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

Raymond Depardon

“Not for money but for the freedom.”

Cédric Klapisch

“In a way all my films have looked at the question of how a person exists in relationship to a group. The subject that I keep coming back to is the link, and the difference, between individual issues and social issues.”

Jean-Marie Larrieu

Arnaud Larrieu

Claude Chabrol

“A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.”