Radley Metzger

Edgar G. Ulmer

“I really am looking for absolution for all the things I had to do for money's sake.”

James Benning

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

Hong Sang-soo

“When I finish a film, I feel like I have overcome a certain hurdle. It's really good for me as a human being, and I hope that for some people, my films will do the same thing.”

Gerhard Lamprecht

Ulrike Ottinger

“I find myself rather isolated in the German film scene, particularly among my women colleagues, because my films come out of the tradition of fantasy and surrealist filmmaking.”

Delmer Daves

Emilio Fernández

“I tried to make films with a relentless and direct style, where I emphasized the strenght and beauty of Mexico, because Mexico has an unsettling duality: it is a people of masks and of full transparency.”

Jean Genet

“To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance.”

Henri-Georges Clouzot

“I want only to tell a story. I think movies are entertainment. If at the same time you can get across something you feel, that is perfect.”

Otar Iosseliani

“The thing we all have in common is that we’re always thinking about holidays.”

Jiří Trnka

“My desire is to capture a story, but in a single phrase.”

Jacques Rivette

“What's important for me in a film is that it be alive, that it be imbued with presence, which is basically the same thing. And that this presence, inscribed within the film, possesses a form of magic. There's something profoundly mysterious in this.”

Sarah Moon

“I never photograph reality. ”

Pál Fejös

“If the movie theaters were suddenly closed in America, there would be a revolution.”

Marguerite Duras

“Men like women who write. Even though they don't say so. A writer is a foreign country.”

Jean Grémillon

Norman McLaren

“For myself, indeed, with an abstract film, the most pleasing forms are those which come closest to music. There must be visual equivalence.”

Jean Vigo

[on his film, À propos de Nice] “In this film, by showing certain basic aspects of a city, a way of life is put on trial. The last gasps of a society so lost in its escapism that it sickens you and makes you sympathetic to a revolutionary solution.”

Bertrand Tavernier

“I rarely produce movies that go from shot, to reverse shot, etc. I always try to avoid that. Either I do a long take, a complex camera movement, or I will break the scene with an unexpected closeup. I try to work that way, to get away from the rules and be free from formal conventions.”