Tsai Ming-liang

“The body always plays an important role in my films. You could say the body is the most beautiful thing we have or you could say it’s the ugliest thing we have. We can sell bodies, we can adore or worship bodies.”

Billy Wilder

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

Laurent Cantet

“I don't set out to make a film as a metaphor. People can read into it what they like, afterwards. The concept is embodied by the story, by the characters, by the context.”

Amat Escalante

Aleksandr Sokurov

“The surface of the screen and that of the canvas are one and the same.”

Michael Haneke

“Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer?”

Eliseo Subiela

Miguel Littin

Ken Loach

“A movie isn't a political movement, a party or even an article. It's just a film. At best it can add its voice to public outrage.”

Marco Bellocchio

“For me a film grows from an image.”

Nagisa Ôshima

“My hatred for Japanese cinema includes absolutely all of it.”

Álex de la Iglesia

“There is nothing more funny than when something unexpectedly happens in a funeral, because in a tragic situation it is when one has more desire of laughing: this is the humour, the unexpected thing.”

Jorge Fons

John Waters

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

Emilio Fernández

“I tried to make films with a relentless and direct style, where I emphasized the strenght and beauty of Mexico, because Mexico has an unsettling duality: it is a people of masks and of full transparency.”

Alfonso Cuarón

“The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Vittorio De Sica

“I've lost all my money on these films. They are not commercial. But I'm glad to lose it this way. To have for a souvenir of my life pictures like Umberto D. and The Bicycle Thief.”

Éric Rohmer

“I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak.”

Tony Richardson

“It’s no exaggeration to say that the ‘sequence’ group changed the whole way of feeling and thinking about film in England – at any rate for a few inspiring years, before the British sank once again into complacency and philistinism.”