Ray Harryhausen

“People ask me if I would have used computer graphics today. I may have, I don’t know. There’s a lot of technology now that allows you to view instantly the film you’ve just shot. But I never cared what I had done, I only cared where I was going.”

Todd Verow

Edward D. Wood Jr.

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

Robert McKimson

Hal Ashby

“I was a kid looking for something but I didn’t know what. The movie business seemed like a terrific thing to get into, because that’s where the money and the fun was at.”

Otto Messmer

Terence Davies

“Martin Scorsese is a huge name! I'm not a huge name. I go into a room full of people and I'm the only person I've not heard of.”

Jiří Trnka

“My desire is to capture a story, but in a single phrase.”

Béla Tarr

“I think censorship is always there. Then it was the censorship of the state and now it's the censorship of the market.”

Jean Vigo

[on his film, À propos de Nice] “In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial. The last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution.”

Mario Camerini

Dave Fleischer

Raúl Ruiz

“If you can make it complicated, why make it simple?”

Lois Weber

“In moving pictures I have found my life work. I find at once an outlet for my emotions and my ideals. I can preach to my heart’s content.”

Mikhail Kalatozov

Peter Jackson

“The most honest form of filmmaking is to make a film for yourself. The worst type is dictated by demographics or what is hip or what kids are into.”

Friz Freleng

“The only thing that saved me was that the people in charge there didn’t know any more about animation than I did.”

Frank Tashlin

“I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.”

Robert Clampett

“I became so enchanted with the new medium of sound cartoons that I gave up the seventy-five dollars a week to join Warner Bros. cartoons for ten dollars a week.”

Sidney Lumet

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