Sarah Polley

“Being a human being is all about experiencing all of the wonders of the world and therefore as an actress, I'm open to any opportunity that may enrich my horizon.”

Kenneth Lonergan

“A lot of movies nowadays belabor the point, you know the two people love each other, or hate each other. Please let’s get on with it.”

Frank Borzage

“Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act.”

Ernst Lubitsch

“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”

Max Ophüls

“Paris, which had always amused me on holiday, was too lovely… Emigration was no hardship, it was an outing. It offered the shining wet boulevards under the street lights, breakfast in Monmartre with cognac in your glass, coffee and lukewarm brioche, gigolos and prostitutes at night… Everyone in the world has two fatherlands: his own and Paris.”

Jean Renoir

“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.”

Preston Sturges

“The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.”

John Ford

“I hate the cinema. But I like making westerns.”

Claude Chabrol

“A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.”

Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

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.”

George Cukor

“I don't weep or anything, but there's always some part of me left bloody on the scene I've just directed.”

Buster Keaton

“I don't act anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.”

Sofia Coppola

“Perhaps it makes sense that a woman whose earliest memory was on the set of Apocalypse Now would grow up to direct a dark fable about five adolescent girls who unapologetically and unceremoniously kill themselves...”

Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

Fei Mu

Lois Weber

“In moving pictures I have found my life work. I find at once an outlet for my emotions and my ideals. I can preach to my heart’s content.”

Sun Yu

“I can accept the 'poet' designation, if by that is meant someone whose face is always lifted up to the sky… But if by that term is meant someone who just sings the praises of 'the moon' and 'sweethearts', deceiving himself while putting others to sleep, then I absolutely must reject it. But if the laurel is bestowed on one who is viewed as an 'idealistic poet', his eyes open, his so-called poetry and his films filled with youthful spirits, not avoiding trouble or fearing abuse, totally committed to using his spirit to give heart to the dispirited and the suffering, then I not only accept the 'poet' laurel, I will willingly cherish it forever!”

Alice Guy-Blaché

“My youth, my lack of experience, my sex all conspired against me.”

Josef von Sternberg

“I care nothing about the story, only how it is photographed and presented.”