Ettore Scola

“Cinema is not like the work of a writer or painter, who can say what they like without concern for external financial support.”

Júlio Bressane

Sidney Lumet

“All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.”

Vittorio De Sica

“I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.”

Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Bernardo Bertolucci

“I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

Heitor Dhalia

François Truffaut

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

Luis Buñuel

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”

Pier Paolo Pasolini

“The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.”

Jean Renoir

“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.”

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.”

Federico Fellini

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Woody Allen

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”