Errol Morris

“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”

Carol Reed

“I give the public what I like, and hope they will like it too.”

Frank Launder

Sidney Gilliat

Ben Hecht

“A movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it.”

Na Hong-jin

Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

Jackie Chan

“Don't try to be like Jackie. There is only one Jackie. Study computers instead.”

Park Chan-wook

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

Mike Judge

“I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all. ”

Bobcat Goldthwait

“That movie looks so bad, I can’t believe I wasn’t in it.”

Chuck Jones

[On one of his most famous characters] "The coyote is victimized by his own ineptitude. I never understood how to use tools and that's really the coyote's problem."

Gene Kelly

“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn’t catch on right away.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Edgar Wright

“Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget. ”

Christopher Guest

“Comedy is like music. You have to know the key and you have to find players with good chops.”

Buster Keaton

“I don't act anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.”

Tim Robbins

“Any time you're trying to do a movie with a happy ending, it's very difficult because it's been done before and you don't want to be manipulative.”

Sergio Leone

“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life in jeeps and upset all my dreams.”

Harold Ramis

“Well, I never made big films to make big films; the scale's been appropriate to the content.”