Denis Lavant

“For me, a role isn’t just a face and a voice, and the great actor that I admire are those who use their body to give a shape to their character, for example Marlon Brando, whose acting has so much style.”

Heddy Honigmann

Leila Hatami

Mark Cousins

Charlie Kaufman

“I try to write something that's complicated. That has different levels within it - I think people can do what they want to do once they watch the movie. I intend it to be what it is. I write for myself. What I understand.”

Gerald Kargl

Michael Fassbender

“In drama school, they don't think of movies as a pure form like theater, and it's films that I love most. There's an intimacy in movies - I wanted to have the same impact on others that movies had on me.”

Paz Encina

Mihály Vig

Mathieu Amalric

“I directed three films and each time I act I hope it’s the last time so I have time to do my film directing.”

Isabelle Huppert

“Acting is a way of living out one's insanity.”

Christopher Doyle

“You see the world, you end up in jail three or four times, you accumulate experience. And it gives you something to say. If you don't have anything to say then you shouldn't be making films. It's nothing to do with what lens you're using.”

Arvo Pärt