“As a critic, I thought of myself as a film-maker. Today I still think of myself as a critic, and in a sense I am, more than ever before. Instead of writing criticism, I make a film, but the critical dimension is subsumed.” — Jean Luc-Godard

“There’s some writing, there’s some painting, there’s some sculpting in (cinema). It’s the art form of our time, because it’s an amalgam of all the other art forms. And yet, it’s important to me to make films that couldn’t be anything else besides films.” – Richard Linklater

“If the movie is quiet I generally feel the audience is busy.” – Ang Lee