Tom Ford

Tarsem Singh

“I happen to be like a prostitute in love with the profession.”

Cam Archer

“My favorite art is the stuff that breaks my heart. That pushes me to put work out there that does the same.”

Steven Shainberg

“Peter Greenaway is a great aesthetic filmmaker. For my money, he's a bit heavy. He's a bit intellectual. I never care about his people, I mean really care about them.”

John Hughes

“I was obsessed with romance. When I was in high school, I saw Doctor Zhivago every day from the day it opened until the day it left the theater.”

John Cameron Mitchell

“It’s ultimately a boring thing, your sexuality – inherently neutral and kind of dull. It’s what you do with it that’s interesting.”

Paul Thomas Anderson

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

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...”

David Fincher

“I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.”

Todd Solondz

“Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can’t celebrate humanity but I’m not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.”

David Lynch

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

Brad Bird

“We make films that we ourselves would want to see and then hope that other people would want to see it. If you try to analyze audiences or think there's some sophisticated recipe for success, then I think you are doomed. You're making it too complicated.”

Darren Aronofsky

“To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.”

Tony Kaye

“[on American History X] Some people think it's a great film; I think it could have been better.”

John Waters

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

Gregg Araki

“I couldn’t make movies like this if I started to worry about what Jerry Falwell is going to have to say about it.”

Quentin Tarantino

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

Kenneth Anger

[On unemployed filmmakers] "It seems much easier for these people to rent my films, look at them and make notes, than to give them a job."