Maurice Pialat

“What I try to do, with the actors' consent, is to create something by beginning with a set situation that we can deviate from in the course of the shoot. ”

Luchino Visconti

“I took a round trip around Hollywood because I think it frightened me. I didn’t want to get burned in that glare.”

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Federico Fellini

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

Martin Scorsese

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

Abdellatif Kechiche

Philippe Garrel

“Cinema is Freud plus Lumière.”

Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

Krzysztof Kieślowski

“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”