Jacques Tati

“Like a dancer learns to dance ... a visual comic learns to use his legs.”

Alex van Warmerdam

Kornél Mundruczó

“I come from a theatrical background, and I'm convinced that it's in fact the audience which determines whether the film works or not.”

Tengiz Abuladze

“Much of _Repentance_ consists of images I have seen in my dreams. I am certain that it was through dreams that my unconscious forced the story to the surface so that I would film it.”

Emmanuelle Bercot

György Pálfi

Roy Andersson

“I felt that film-making generally didn't reach the level you could find in painting or literature or music. It was for one-time use only, and more and more, the movies were losing their visual power - they were concentrating on the plot only. That's why I started wanting to be a film director myself. It wasn't only the plot that was interesting; it was the touch, the feeling, something visually rich.”

Paolo Sorrentino

“I can’t stand anyone or anything. Not even myself! Especially myself! Only one thing I tolerate. The gradient.”

Lynne Ramsay

“I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.”

Steve James

Damjan Kozole

Vinko Brešan

Martine Doyen

Hélier Cisterne

Cao Hamburger

Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

Todd Haynes

“I've always felt more politically comfortable making films that demonstrated problems and didn't tell you how to solve them, but made you feel enough for the subjects who were hurt by these problems...”

Lucian Pintilie

“What is the survival strategy of a community in a state of perpetual catastrophe?...And when does making fun—the assumed irresponsibility, the dark humor that we, Romanians, are so proud of—stop being an impenetrable shield? This is the number one matter in all my movies.”

Saul Dibb

Pjer Žalica