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.”

Ron Fricke

“I feel that my work has evolved through Koyaanisqatsi, Chronos and Baraka. Both technically and philosophically I am ready to delve even deeper into my favorite theme: humanity’s relationship to the eternal.”

Bill Morrison

“The frame pauses briefly before the projector’s lamp, and then moves on. Our lives are accumulations of ephemeral images and moments that our consciousness constructs into a reality.”

Benjamin Heisenberg

Michael Apted

“I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.”

Wolfgang Reitherman

“It was a romance from the start. The minute you know you can make a drawing move, the static drawing loses its appeal: movement is life. Animation represents the greatest breakthrough in 20th Century art.”

Danny DeVito

“It’s fun to be on the edge. I think you do your best work when you take chances, when you’re not safe, when you’re not in the middle of the road, at least for me, anyway.”

Bent Hamer

Robert Redford

“Ideas aren't real estate, they grow collectively and that knocks out the egotistical loneliness that generally infects art.”

Vilgot Sjöman

Julian Schnabel

“Some people must go to extremes to get the world in balance for themselves. Some can't bear bright lights, so wherever they go they search for the dark; they turn the lights down, anything to sustain some level of comfort.”

Sydney Pollack

“I don't value a film I've enjoyed making. If it's good, it's damned hard work.”

Marcel Pagnol

“The laugh is a human thing, a virtuousness which belongs only to men and that God, perhaps, gave them to alleviate them to be clever”

John Sayles

“Oh, I've always felt like I was on the margins. Once upon a time that's what independent used to mean.”

Liliana Cavani

Sam Taylor Wood

“When I was pregnant I took the year off and did nothing and I think everything builds up and then there's this vomiting forth of ideas.”

Agnieszka Holland

“His penis saved his soul. Otherwise, he might have become a total Nazi.” (on Europa Europa protagonist Solomon Perel, a circumcised Jew who posed as an “Aryan” German during World War II to escape persecution)

Sharunas Bartas

“Sadness is a much more stable emotion in people than happiness.”

Nicole Holofcener

“To say you want to be a director is to risk sounding obnoxious, pretentious, arrogant, and I think women are more fearful of sounding that way than men are.”

Torill Kove