Chantal Akerman

“When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Yvonne Rainer

Alain Resnais

“I'm always in search of special nonrealistic language that has musicality. ”

Chris Marker

“Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”

Abel Ferrara

“I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself...you're taught not to think too deeply about things.”

Michael Haneke

“Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer?”

Jean-Luc Godard

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