Jack Cardiff

“I was not a technical person - I was never a technical person. I have always liked the more artistic side of things and I did get a lot of inspiration and knowledge from studying painting - that was very important.”

Sidney Lumet

“All great work is preparing yourself for the accident to happen.”

Corey Yuen

Wong Kar-wai

“Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it's the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.”

Joseph Kahn

Danis Tanović

“When reading a script, I try to find the essence of each scene and what it can contribute to the subject as a whole. I then dream about my film. I work while lying down on my sofa, as if at a session with a psychoanalyst. Danis, the patient, relates his story to Tanovic, the psychologist. Visions appear to me with such precision that I can then shoot and edit them very quickly.”

Wisit Sasanatieng

Wolfgang Petersen

“Theaters are always going to be around, and doing fine. With computers and technology, we’re becoming more and more secluded from each other. And the movie theater is one of the last places where we can still gather and experience something together. I don’t think the desire for that magic will ever go away.”

Michel Gondry

“Every great idea is on the verge of being stupid.”

Bobby Farrelly

“It's not just putting people with disabilities in the movies - it's putting them in and letting them be a wide range of characters. Some of them are funny, some of them are not, some of them are nice, some of them are jerks. They're just like everybody else. If a guy came up to us and he was physically disabled or something and he was mad at us for something we did, it would kill us. Me or Pete - it would kill us.”

Peter Farrelly

“We're the anti-Coens. Nobody analyzes our filmmaking, and we don't want them to.” [on he and his brother]

Lee Yoon-ki

“There’s no such thing as “an auteurist filmmaker.” Every film directors is an auteur. We only make films that we do because we cannot put on clothes that don’t fit us.”

Quentin Tarantino

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

Stephen Chow

“I used to cry when I watched Chaplin’s films. It was from him that I learned about the role of the underdog. And because I’m also from a poor family, this kind of thing moved me and I found that it also worked for the audience because most of them are like me – ordinary guys.”

Wes Craven

“The first monster you have to scare the audience with is yourself.”

Mark Neveldine

Louis Leterrier

“Hollywood is the toughest film class.”

Edward Zwick

“I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them. ”

Hiroyuki Nakano

Javor Gardev