Joss Whedon

“If nothing we do matters, then all that matters is what we do.”

Henry King

[on Errol Flynn] “He was a joy, a lovely man, and most of the talk about him is nothing but rumor…He loved to talk about how much he could drink and the women he’d made love to, but most of it was just the rationalizations of a disappointed moralist.”

Asghar Farhadi

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.”

Ismael Rodríguez

Yasujirô Ozu

“I formulated my own directing style in my own head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others… For me there was no such thing as a teacher. I have relied entirely on my own strength.”

Alain Resnais

“I'm always in search of special nonrealistic language that has musicality. ”

Lina Wertmüller

“I am passionate about liberty. I'm by nature an anarchist, an individualist.”

Tay Garnett

Steve McQueen

“My influences come from real life. I’m not interested in cinema for cinema’s sake. I’m interested in life—what one does and how one interacts.”

Michel Hazanavicius

[About silent movies]: “I think it’s the ultimate way to tell a story for a filmmaker.”

Jacques Tati

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

Frank Capra

“My advice to young filmmakers is this: Don’t follow trends. Start them!”

Ernest B. Schoedsack

“That’s why we made such a great team. We each fulfilled what the other lacked.”

Merian C. Cooper

“You’re going to have the tallest, darkest leading man in Hollywood.”

Arcady Boytler

Nicolas Winding Refn

“Art is an act of violence.”

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.”

Sergei Eisenstein

“Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects?”

Dziga Vertov

“I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see.”