Jack Smith

“I was knocking myself out to make this stuff. And I always assumed that people would see this and have pity and give me a little support. [shouts] They didn’t!”

Émile Cohl

Anton Corbijn

“I don't like a very fast film; I wanted a film where there would be time for someone to walk through a room because I like movement by people.”

Wim Wenders

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

Kihachiro Kawamoto

“Puppets make their own story, while with cut out animation the story is created by the animator.”

Chris Marker

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

Joseph Cornell

“Shadow boxes become poetic theaters or settings wherein are metamorphosed the element of a childhood pastime.”

Bill Plympton

“In a perfect world, I would prefer just to draw all day and make these cartoons. But the problem is, if I work for a big studio, then I would lose a lot of my creative ideas.”

Peter Kubelka

“I like the extremes so to speak: either a cinema which is occupied by intelligence and specificity of the medium, or a fully Hollywood film, with its great means, it’s spectacular tricks and it’s stupidity of cutting, the banality of its content, etc.”

Hans Richter

“Rhythm cannot be explained completely by thought nor can thought be put in terms of rhythm, or converted or reproduced. They both find their connection and identity in common and universal human life, the life principle, from which they spring and upon which they can build further.”

Osamu Tezuka

“What I try to appeal through my works is simple. The opinion is just a simple message that follows: "Love all the creatures! Love everything that has life"! I have been trying to express this message in every one of my works. Though it has taken the different forms like "the presentation of nature," "the blessing of life," "the suspicion of too much science-oriented civilisation," anti-war and so on.”

Tex Avery

“Let’s make some funny pictures.”

Roger Corman

“In science-fiction films the monster should always be bigger than the leading lady.”

Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

Lois Weber

“In moving pictures I have found my life work. I find at once an outlet for my emotions and my ideals. I can preach to my heart’s content.”

Garri Bardin

Paul Bern

Wilfred Jackson

“I'm the only guy [at Disney] who was never hired.”

Frank Tashlin

“I got into a fight with Walt Disney: I always pick the wrong people to fight with.”

Frank Borzage

“Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act.”