José Luis Guerín

“I don’t see cinema in terms of Spanish, French, European or American. I think we should see cinema as a separate continent; the only continent I understand is the continent of cinema.”

Bill Morrison

“The frame pauses briefly before the projector’s lamp, and then moves on. Our lives are accumulations of ephemeral images and moments that our consciousness constructs into a reality.”

Andrea Arnold

“Dramatically, I like darkness, I like conflict - but I don't see the world as defined by them. And why would I pretend to? That's not who I am.”

Sophie Letourneur

Harun Farocki

“Ten years on it’s always the article on the back of the newspaper cutting that’s of interest, but half a column is missing.”

Eugène Green

Andrzej Żuławski

“To please the majority is the requirement of the Planet Cinema. As far as I’m concerned, I don’t make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoyment, and who know nothing about their own existence.”

John Gianvito

Jessica Hausner

Robert Bresson

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

Věra Chytilová

“I have no desire to cuddle my audience.”

Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Manoel de Oliveira

[Answering the questions: what keeps you going?] "There is no secret – it is work! It is doing something, it is a natural impulsion. My life is so complicated – I need space around me, I have so much going on and my house is small, and I need breathing space. I cannot seem to sort it out. I cannot either stretch time, or enlarge the house. That would take up precious time which I cannot afford."

Alain Cavalier

Patricio Guzmán

Athina Rachel Tsangari

Pedro Costa

“If you don't risk yourself and the people with whom you're working in almost every shot you make, it's not good, it's useless, it's just another film.”

James Benning

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

Angela Ricci Lucchi

Yervant Gianikian