Herschell Gordon Lewis

“I see filmmaking as a business and pity anyone who regards it as an art form.”

Noah Baumbach

“If I had to sell Life Aquatic to a producer, well, I wouldn't say it's like an Éric Rohmer film under water.”

Luis Buñuel

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”

David Michôd

Agnès Varda

“I'm not interested in seeing a film just made by a woman - not unless she is looking for new images.”

Woody Allen

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”

Wes Anderson

“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Sam Peckinpah

“The end of a picture is always an end of a life.”

Martin Scorsese

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

Michel Gondry

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

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...”

Harmony Korine

“What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.”

Ingmar Bergman

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Jean Renoir

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

Akira Kurosawa

“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”