Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

William Castle

“Don’t be embarrassed about opening your mouth and letting rip with all you’ve got, because the person in the seat right next to you, will probably be screaming too!”

Darren Aronofsky

“To me, watching a movie is like going to an amusement park. My worst fear is making a film that people don't think is a good ride.”

Georges Méliès

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

Julien Duvivier

Genius is just a word; filmmaking is a craft.

Lotte Reiniger

“I love working for children, because they are a very critical and very thankful public.”

Man Ray

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

Victor Sjöström

“The thing that brought me into filmmaking was a youthful desire for adventure and a curiosity to try this new medium.”

Sylvain Chomet

George Albert Smith

Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Tod Browning

“The thing you have to be most careful of in a mystery story, is not to let it verge on the comic. If a thing gets too gruesome and too horrible, it gets beyond the limits of the average imagination and the audience laughs. It may sound incongruous, but mystery must be made plausible.”

M. Night Shyamalan

“I feel most akin as an artist, in my life and my career, to Agatha Christie. I get where she was coming from, making 80 stories about a point of view. I want at the end of the day to have 50 or 60 stories that came out of my head. Some will hit the mainstream and some won’t, but they’ll all be about human beings, and the analysis of human beings. So she’s my hero.”

David Lynch

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”

Jean Rollin

“The fantastic cinema is always a good vehicle for discussing certain political ideas in the form of symbols and metaphors.”

Goran Dukic

Frank Borzage

“Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act.”

Kenneth Anger

[On unemployed filmmakers] "It seems much easier for these people to rent my films, look at them and make notes, than to give them a job."

Andrei Tarkovsky

“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”

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.”