Irwin Allen

Doris Wishman

“ALL movies are exploitation movies.”

Larry Buchanan

Damon Packard

“My thoughts on copyright infringement are mixed and complicated. Everything is a rip-off of everything else now anyway, so why even bother with any restrictions?”

Herschell Gordon Lewis

“I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.”

Adam Curtis

“I want to try to make people look at things they think they know about in a new way.”

John Waters

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

Rainer Werner Fassbinder

“It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful...it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.”

Lars von Trier

“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”

Kelly Reichardt

“I like working in a really private way. I mean, we got as far as a cut of [Old Joy] without speaking to any kind of lawyer or anything. We got into Sundance before we thought we should form a company. Aside from a lot of sound work and stuff still to go, it was all very private, and that’s a dream for me.”

Barbara Loden

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.”

Woody Allen

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”

David Cronenberg

“Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing their whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.”

Jean-Pierre Melville

“I believe that you must be madly in love with cinema to create films. You also need a huge cinematic baggage.”

Steven Soderbergh

“To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.”

Todd Haynes

“I've always felt more politically comfortable making films that demonstrated problems and didn't tell you how to solve them, but made you feel enough for the subjects who were hurt by these problems...”

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.”

Carlos Reygadas

“Theatre is interesting as a catharsis for actors because it's the only way you can be idiotic and get away with it. I really, really don't like theatre and I feel so far from it.”