Thomas Vinterberg

“The Dogma Manifesto was a wonderful opportunity to be a team, to unite the country’s filmmakers. But we’ve all sought out other paths, we distanced ourselves from a movement that was becoming a brand, and would have ended up limiting our creativity.”

Martín Rejtman

“I tried to show things that Argentina cinema wasn’t showing. If everything was explained too much, I chose to be less discursive; if there was a lot of talking, I chose to talk less; if it was clear that there was no narrative system, that every scene was filmed as it came, I tried to be rigorous and to tell the story in a specific way.”

Luis Buñuel

“I distrust reason and culture. In our thoughts there are images that appear suddenly, without us pondering them. In all my films, even the most conventional ones, is the tendency to irrational conduct that can not be explained logically.”

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.”

Kurt Kren

Aleksey Balabanov

“People have always watched and will watch films about bandits.”

Nicolás Pereda

“My concern in constructing such a film (Summer of Goliath) is to understand and ultimately to evoke the experience of the everyday within this environment, and to convey through film –albeit a visual medium- a physical sense of feelings, place, and culture.”

Amos Gitai

“Israel’s one-man New Wave” —Michael Atkinson

Georges Méliès

“We sat with our mouths open, without speaking, filled with amazement.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Nikos Nikolaidis

“A few days before we started shooting, some weird stangers appeared resembling Che Guevara’s cousins and told me 'Give us your script to read and we’ll let you know whether you should make this movie.' Of course, I gave it to them. Two days later they returned saying 'We like it, you can go ahead.' And I went ahead and shot it.”

Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

Felipe Cazals

Claude Chabrol

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

Alejandro Jodorowsky

“Most directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testicles.”

Servando González

Ingmar Bergman

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

Aleksandar Petrović

Don Hertzfeldt

“Some people can do great things with CG, but that world just doesn’t interest me or inspire me. I’ve never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it.”

Raoul Servais