Man Ray

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

Frank Borzage

“Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act.”

F.W. Murnau

“Our battle, our struggle, is to create art. Our weapon is the moving picture...we are scientists engaged in the creation of memory... but our memory will neither blur nor fade.”

Carlos Sorin

Michel Gondry

“Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.”

Guy Maddin

“Whatever I do next, it'll be a horror film.”

Sergei Eisenstein

“Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?”

Álex de la Iglesia

“There is nothing more funny than when something unexpectedly happens in a funeral, because in a tragic situation it is when one has more desire of laughing: this is the humour, the unexpected thing.”

Harmony Korine

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

Todd Solondz

“Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can’t celebrate humanity but I’m not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.”

David Lean

“My distinguishing talent is the ability to put people under the microscope, perhaps to go one or two layers farther down than some other directors.”

Marcel Carné

“I don't know what they'll say when I die. I don't give a damn, but they'll probably cry.”

Éric Rohmer

“I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak.”

Luchino Visconti

“I took a round trip around Hollywood because I think it frightened me. I didn’t want to get burned in that glare.”

Claude Berri

“I try to make films that move people when they are in the theater and make them think only after they leave.”

Patrice Leconte

“You may think it’s very presumptuous, but I really hope that my movies are going to turn people into better people.”

Michael Haneke

“Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer?”

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful...it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.”

Jacques Demy

"He has an idea of the world he is trying to apply to the cinema or else… an idea of cinema which he applies to the world." —Jean-Luc Godard

Alain Resnais

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