Stanley Kubrick

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

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.”

Tony Scott

“It was just a different way of doing things, and I`m often criticized for attempting difference, which is misinterpreted as style over content.”

Sion Sono

Edgar Wright

“Everything that I've done so far has had a bigger budget than the last, but I've never ever felt the benefit of the bigger budget because the ideas always exceed the budget. ”

James Gray

“What I’m after, making a film, is the most exact transcript of my most intimate impressions of behavior.”

Michael Mann

“I cannot just make a film and walk away from it. I need that creative intimacy, and quite frankly, the control to execute my visions, on all my projects.”

John Cassavetes

“The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself, to express what you have to. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.”

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Paul Thomas Anderson

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