Jeff Nichols

PES

Ernst Lubitsch

“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”

Richard Linklater

“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. ”

Preston Sturges

“The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.”

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.”

Éric Rohmer

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

David Lynch

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

Howard Hawks

“I'm a storyteller—that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move!”

François Truffaut

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

Clint Eastwood

“...in America, instead of making the audience come to the film, the idea seems to be for you to go to the audience. They come up with the demographics for the film and then the film is made and sold strictly to that audience. Not to say that it's all bad, but it leaves a lot of the rest of us out of it. To me cinema can be a much more friendly world if there's a lot of things to choose from.”

Satyajit Ray

“What is attempted in these films is of course a synthesis. But it can be seen by someone who has his feet in both cultures. Someone who will bring to bear on the films involvement and detachment in equal measure.”

Federico Fellini

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

Apichatpong Weerasethakul

“I, as a filmmaker, treat my works as I do my own sons or daughters. I don't care if people are fond of them or despise them, as long as I created them with my best intentions and efforts.”

Errol Morris

“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”

Orson Welles

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

Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

Kenji Mizoguchi

“You must put the odor of the human body into images...describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel...there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.”

Claire Denis

“Even if it's the dream of a voyage, I think it was very important for me that the film offer the two sides of the globe.”

Max Ophüls

“Paris, which had always amused me on holiday, was too lovely… Emigration was no hardship, it was an outing. It offered the shining wet boulevards under the street lights, breakfast in Monmartre with cognac in your glass, coffee and lukewarm brioche, gigolos and prostitutes at night… Everyone in the world has two fatherlands: his own and Paris.”