Nicolas Roeg

“You make the movie through the cinematography - it sounds quite a simple idea, but it was like a huge revelation to me.”

William Friedkin

“By the time a film of mine makes it into the theaters, I have a love-hate relationship with it. There is always something I could have done to make it better.”

Chris Menges

David Mamet

“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. ”

Josef von Sternberg

“I care nothing about the story, only how it is photographed and presented.”

Peter Bogdanovich

“It's a misconception about acting that it's a practice in pretending to be someone else. It's actually a practice in finding the character within yourself.”

Bernardo Bertolucci

“I don't film messages. I let the post office take care of those.”

Sidney Lumet

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

Sam Peckinpah

“The end of a picture is always an end of a life.”

Masaki Kobayashi

“In any era, I am critical of authoritarian power.”

Ingmar Bergman

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

John Schlesinger

“Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.”