Eric Stanze

“More than any movie I've directed or produced, SCRAPBOOK has had the most impact. I am very glad we made that movie. More than any other project, it put me and my production company on the indie film map.”

Dario Argento

“Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.”

Jean Rollin

“The fantastic cinema is always a good vehicle for discussing certain political ideas in the form of symbols and metaphors.”

Eliseo Subiela

Shinji Aoyama

“I merely make films about what comes into me from the outside, and making films is about putting what's within me outside again. I consider myself a hollow container. That's what's most important when I make my films. I myself am empty.”

Masahiro Kobayashi

Radu Muntean

“I only really want to be able to make the movies I wish to make, to function in a normal film industry and to have a producer who gives me enough creative freedom. Right now I want to make very simple movies, subtle, dry, strong and with interesting stories.”

Kiyoshi Kurosawa

“I don’t start with a philosophical or thematical approach. Instead I often start with a genre that’s relatively easy to understand and then explore how I want to work in that genre.”

Yilmaz Güney

“Those who sing revolutionary songs when everything is quiet prefer to hide behind doors when things get difficult.”

Dave Fleischer

Julio Medem

“I want my own experience with each film to be new, so I try to run away fully from the film I made before and make something completely different.”

Serge Gainsbourg

“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.”

Bobcat Goldthwait

“That movie looks so bad, I can’t believe I wasn’t in it.”

Olivier Assayas

“With Irma Vep, all of a sudden I decided that it was okay to mix genre, to mix cultures, and that movies sometimes could be experiments, that within the format of modern cinema, within the format of narrative, you could experiment by mixing elements.”

Man Ray

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

Clara Law

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!'.”

John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

Alain Robbe-Grillet

“A new form will always seem more or less an absence of any form at all, since it is unconsciously judged by reference to the consecrated forms.”

Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”