Nobuhiro Yamashita

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.”

Hiroshi Shimizu

People like me and Ozu get films made by hard work, but Shimizu is a genius… —Kenji Mizoguchi

Orson Welles

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

Ernst Lubitsch

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

Michael Powell

“I’m not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through the cinema...”

Jean Renoir

“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.”

Buster Keaton

“I don't act anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.”

Frank Borzage

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