Steven Soderbergh

“To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.”

Brad Anderson

Werner Herzog

“It is my duty to direct because the films might be the inner chronicle of what we are, and we have to articulate ourselves. Otherwise we would be cows in the field.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Takeshi Kitano

“Sword fighting in film is not about how good the fighter is, but how good the actor receiving the blows is.”

Fernando Meirelles

“We’re supposed to capture what’s in the air and give a form to it. The artist is like an antenna, always searching for new ideas and ways to express them.”

David Lynch

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”

Park Chan-wook

“The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.”

Paul Thomas Anderson

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

Robert Zemeckis

“No matter how many obstacles that are thrown in our path, there are ways to except them and to live through them.”

Roman Polanski

“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”

Alfonso Cuarón

“The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.”

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.”

Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”