Harry Smith

Paul Thomas Anderson

“I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.”

Ti West

“The independent world and the studio world are very different. The independent world is about, "Let's get this movie made because it's going to be awesome and we believe in it," and the studio world is about slow business decisions.”

Chantal Akerman

“When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.”

Timothy Carey

“I don’t care about anything, about the cinema. I don’t like it. Bunch of lonely people. Going in. Looking up. Forget about it.”

Josef von Sternberg

“I care nothing about the story, only how it is photographed and presented.”

Jean Rollin

“The fantastic cinema is always a good vehicle for discussing certain political ideas in the form of symbols and metaphors.”

Sam Peckinpah

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

Paul Naschy

Terence Fisher

“Do I believe in the supernatural? Oh yes, certainly. I can’t believe, I can’t accept that you die and that’s the end. Physically maybe it is a fact. But there’s something about the mind that’s more than that.”

Georges Méliès

“We sat with our mouths open, without speaking, filled with amazement.”

Teruo Ishii

Friz Freleng

“The only thing that saved me was that the people in charge there didn’t know any more about animation than I did.”

Freddie Francis

“I just loved making movies. I suppose it is because I can’t do anything else. I had a wonderful time doing it and enjoyed every moment.”

Shunya Ito

Serge Gainsbourg

“Ugliness is in a way superior to beauty because it lasts.”

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.”

George A. Romero

“If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.”

William Hanna

Joseph Barbera