Gérard Blain

Souleymane Cissé

“Every nation has the right to be represented by the cinema.”

Xavier Gens

Joe Wright

“Every time I make a film, I feel it gives me the chance to learn something new. I've been lucky over the past few years. Things have just happened for me.”

Bimal Roy

Jesús Franco

“I feel that cinema should be like a box of surprises, like a magic box. And in that world, anything is allowed to enter, as long as it's always treated with a spirit of 'Pop!'.”

Francesco Rosi

“My films are not policiers, or thrillers, but instead aim to provoke, to insinuate doubts, to challenge the official statements and certainties from the powers that be which hide real interests and the truth.”

Franco Prosperi

Gualtiero Jacopetti

Cristian Mungiu

“I believe in the joy of little things. I enjoy walking and observing things, noticing details about people and the space I'm in. We live in the movie of our own life and we seldom pay attention to it. ”

Pierre Étaix

“There are not properly funny situations, there are only dramatic situations which cause to laugh.”

Keisuke Kinoshita

Danny Boyle

“There's a certain truth that you do end up making the same film again and again so if you vary the genre you have a chance of breaking that cycle.”

Peter Strickland

Jan de Bont

Melvin Van Peebles

“I make a film like I cook for friends. I hope they like it, but if they don't, I'm prepared to enjoy it all by myself.”

Lino Brocka

Samuel Fuller

“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”

Pietro Germi

Valerio Zurlini