Barbara Loden

Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

Jon Jost

Mark Rappaport

“Because various projects fell through I said, Oh, fuck this, I can’t stand this, waiting on other people’s money and for this person to like it and that person to like it and the other person to jump on board. I’m going to do something I can do at home by myself that’s going to cost me 25 cents and to hell with the big production that’ll never get made.”

Mike Leigh

“The whole thing about making films in an organic film location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across”

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.”

Andrei Tarkovsky

“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”

Wong Kar-wai

“Sometimes they think the way we work is very stylish and romantic, but actually it's the way we can survive and make the films. We can work with the things that we get, but not the things we wish we had.”

Yasujirô Ozu

“I formulated my own directing style in my own head, proceeding without any unnecessary imitation of others… For me there was no such thing as a teacher. I have relied entirely on my own strength.”

Chris Marker

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