Ron Fricke

“I feel that my work has evolved through Koyaanisqatsi, Chronos and Baraka. Both technically and philosophically I am ready to delve even deeper into my favorite theme: humanity’s relationship to the eternal.”

Roberto Benigni

“Charlie Chaplin used his ass better than any other actor. In all his films his ass is practically the protagonist. For a comic, the ass has incredible importance.”

Christopher Nolan

“I think audiences get too comfortable and familiar in today's movies. They believe everything they're hearing and seeing. I like to shake that up.”

Jacques Tati

“Like a dancer learns to dance ... a visual comic learns to use his legs.”

Mathieu Kassovitz

“I have a hard enough time speaking for myself - I don't pretend I can be a spokesman for anybody. I have no interest in playing that role.”

Kira Muratova

“What is most important to me is to please myself.”

Ivan Vyrypayev

Stanley Kubrick

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

Charlie Chaplin

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

John Cassavetes

“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

Leonid Gaidai

Jens Lien

Spike Lee

“I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.”

Wim Wenders

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

Andrei Zvyagintsev

“As an art-house director I am supposed to hate mainstream films but I saw Peter Jackson's King Kong and liked it. I even cried when I was watching it although in my opinion this film has no artistic value at all.”

Michel Gondry

“Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.”

Chris Cunningham

“All I ever do is talk about films and then not make them. As a result I thought: just shut up about it—make a film then talk about it when it's done.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

Aleksey Balabanov

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