Luchino Visconti

“I took a round trip around Hollywood because I think it frightened me. I didn’t want to get burned in that glare.”

Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

Paul Thomas Anderson

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

Wong Kar-wai

“Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it's the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.”

Liliana Cavani

David Lynch

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”

Robert Aldrich

“A director is a ringmaster, a psychiatrist and a referee.”

Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

Vittorio De Sica

“I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.”