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Paul Bartel

Otto Preminger

[Giving direction to a group of children on Exodus (1960)] "Cry, you little monsters!"

Fernando Arrabal

“I almost never come in contact with what we call nature. It scares me, since nature is like death.”

Mike Kuchar

“When I was a kid, I’d look at the screen and see all those adults in turbulent dramas, I couldn’t wait to be an adult.”

George Kuchar

“I get up late after editing ‘til dawn, soil some kitchenware, feed the cats and then go out for exercise so that my mid section doesn’t expand so much when I sit down at the editing bench once again.”

Andrzej Żuławski

“To please the majority is the requirement of the Planet Cinema. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment, and who know nothing about their own existence.”

Tex Avery

“Let’s make some funny pictures.”

Ralph Bakshi

“Sweetheart, I'm the biggest ripped-off cartoonist in the history of the world, and that's all I'm going to say.”

Barbet Schroeder

“Every time, I try to make something different. ”

Mike Leigh

“The whole thing about making films in an organic film location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across”

Umberto Lenzi

“For me the characters were more important than the murders.”

Robert Aldrich

“A director is a ringmaster, a psychiatrist and a referee.”

Martin Scorsese

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

John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

Hayao Miyazaki

“Modern life is so thin and shallow and fake. I look forward to when developers go bankrupt, Japan gets poorer and wild grasses take over.”

Erich von Stroheim

“‎Lubitsch shows you the king on his throne, and then in the bedroom. I show you the king in his bedroom first so you know what kind of man he really is when you see him on the throne.”

Shinya Tsukamoto

“It’s strange. Part of me loves a city like Tokyo, but part of me would quite happily destroy it.”

Katsuhito Ishii

Lukas Moodysson

“I'm not particularly interested in probing the depths of my soul; I'm more into probing the world around me.”