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.”

Adam Curtis

“I want to try to make people look at things they think they know about in a new way.”

Ilia Khrzhanovsky

Abigail Child

Anne-Marie Miéville

James Benning

“I have a very simple definition of an artist. The artist is someone who pays attention and reports back.”

Jean Eustache

“The films I made are as autobiographical as fiction can be.”

Fred Kelemen

“They are just movies, individual artistic expressions, personal reflections of reality.”

Miklós Jancsó

“An artist should be able to create his own autonomous world, but making a film depends on so many extraneous factors that I don’t really think it’s an authentic form of art.”

Léos Carax

“I perceive 'Pierre' (Pola X) in the same way that I perceive my own life: I understand both 'poorly' but I’m obliged to explore them. That’s what a project is: a heavy question mark. You’re the dot under that mark and you mustn’t let it crush you.”

Ken Russell

“Life is too short to make destructive films about people one doesn’t like. My films are meant to be constructive and illuminating.”

Kim Ji-woon

“I don’t know yet which genre I’m best at so I have to try lots of different ones! I don’t want to repeat a genre that I’ve already done because working with a variety of styles inspires me and gives me more cinematic energy.”

José María de Orbe

Vicente Aranda

Nacho Cerdà

“I would never want to lose the spontaneity when making films, your instinct is the most valuable thing in this job and I’d like to keep it alive to the very last day.”

Jerzy Skolimowski

Chris Marker

“Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”

Philippe Grandrieux

“I never watched any rushes. Because I frame the shots and operate the camera, the images are directly inscribed on my retina.”

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Juan López Moctezuma

“Movies are for me a magical instrument... It's a way of building other worlds.”