Pavel Lungin

John Cassavetes

“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

Jeff Nichols

Darezhan Omirbaev

“The cinema is an urban art.”

Ágnes Hranitzky

Catherine Breillat

“When I shoot a film, I always project myself into one of the characters, at once into either a man or a woman...”

Corneliu Porumboiu

“I believe that the cinema shouldn’t only offer information; it can create a world through time and movement.”

Paul Schrader

“What fascinates me are people who want to be one thing but who behave in a way contradictory to that. Who might say, ‘I want to be happy, but I keep doing things that make me unhappy.”

Aleksandr Rastorguev

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. ”

Paul Thomas Anderson

“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”

Alan Clarke

“They're just actors. I much prefer the real thing!”

Hou Hsiao-hsien

“The main thing is for the actors to forget the camera. They have to act as if they are working in a documentary.”

Sohrab Shahid Saless

“A Simple Event has no plot. It is only a report on the daily life of a boy.”

Giorgos Lanthimos

Peter Watkins

“I think that the main impact on my work, on the making of this film, came from the intensity of the similarity I felt to Edvard Munch as a man, as an artist, as someone who struggled throughout his life.”

Yevgeny Yufit

“The development of technologies is not a particularly positive thing for human existence”

Andrey Khrzhanovskiy

Dagur Kári

“I am fascinated by the idea of taking every scene as a film and making every scene as good as you want the film to be. I hate to shoot a scene where a guy walks out the door and takes a bus just to show that he takes the bus because this frame can never have the potential of becoming a great scene. I try to treat every scene as it were the only scene.”

Masahiro Kobayashi