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.”

Joss Whedon

“If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.”

Park Chan-wook

“The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.”

Shinya Tsukamoto

“It’s strange. Part of me loves a city like Tokyo, but part of me would quite happily destroy it.”

Gerald Potterton

John McTiernan

“Before I did any action movies, I did a couple of thrillers. That's hung around for me.”

Sylvain Chomet

Thom Andersen

Richard Linklater

“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. ”

Jules Dassin

“If there is anything I want to be remembered for, it is for fulfilling Melina's dream [the return of the Elgin Marbles to Greece].”

Terry Jones

“Comedy is a dangerous business. If people find something funny you’re okay. But the moment you do something that’s meant to be funny and someone doesn’t find it funny, they become angry. It’s almost as if they resent the fact that you tried to make them laugh and failed.”

Stan Winston

Nick Park

“Gromit was the name of a cat. When I started modeling the cat I just didn`t feel it was quite right, so I made it into a dog because he could have a bigger nose and bigger, longer legs.”

Tim Burton

“I've always loved the idea of fairy tales, but somehow I never managed to completely connect with them. What interests me is taking those classic images and themes and trying to contemporize them a bit. I believe folk tales and fairy tales have some sort of psychological foundation that makes that possible.”

Ron Mann

Frank Darabont

“A director shouldn't get in the way of the movie, the story should.”

Dennis Hopper

“Like all artists I want to cheat death a little and contribute something to the next generation.”

Edward D. Wood Jr.

“One is always considered mad when one perfects something that others cannot grasp.”

Terrence Malick

“[On Badlands (1973)] I tried to keep the 1950s to a bare minimum. Nostalgia is a powerful feeling; it can drown out anything. I wanted the picture to set up like a fairy tale, outside time, like Treasure Island. I hoped this would, among other things, take a little of the sharpness out of the violence, but still keep its dreamy quality.”

Paul Verhoeven

“People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and he can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness and he'd walk out or fall asleep.”