Robert Altman

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”

Wim Wenders

“Any movie that has that spirit and says things can be changed is worth making. ”

Louis Malle

“You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.”

Douglas Sirk

“If I can say one thing for my pictures, it is a certain craftsmanship. A thought which has gone into every angle. There is nothing there without an optical reason.”

James Ivory

“All my life, I’ve liked to travel and make movies and I’ve been able to combine the two. But I can’t look at the other cultures through their eyes, I can only look at them through mine, which are the eyes of an American of my generation.”

Bob Fosse

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else.”

Alan Parker

“Making a film is so hard that if you don't have your main actors going along with the ride with the rest of the crew it can make your life very difficult.”

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...”

John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

Gene Kelly

“I wanted to invent some kind of American dance that was danced to the music that I grew up on: Cole Porter and Rodgers and Hart and Irving Berlin. So I evolved a style that certainly didn’t catch on right away.”

Dario Argento

“Horror is the future. And you cannot be afraid. You must push everything to the absolute limit or else life will be boring. People will be boring. Horror is like a serpent; always shedding its skin, always changing. And it will always come back. It can't be hidden away like the guilty secrets we try to keep in our subconscious.”

George Cukor

“I don't weep or anything, but there's always some part of me left bloody on the scene I've just directed.”

Delbert Mann

Penelope Spheeris

Derek Jarman

“I wouldn’t wish the eighties on anyone, it was the time when all that was rotten bubbled to the surface. If you were not at the receiving end of this mayhem you could be unaware of it.”

Stephen Frears

“When you’re starting, what you chiefly have is energy and passion and that will go a long way to cover a certain amount of funkiness in how you tell a story. But you’re never going to make a film late in your career the way you made it at the beginning and to try to is insane.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Alex Cox

“Sorry, but there is no pleasure in finding new ways of saying the same stuff about projects which tanked.”

Paul Thomas Anderson

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