Gary Ross

David Mamet

“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. ”

Whit Stillman

“For me, the present is a golden era that’s ending too. That’s the greatest golden era. Right now. [Laughs.] I just like pining for lost times. I can pine for this morning.”

John Dahl

That's fine with me. I like the process of making movies.

Cameron Crowe

“In the future, everybody is going to be a director. Somebody’s got to live a real life so we have something to make a movie about.”

Kevin Smith

“There's something to be said for failing. It's not the failure you feel, it's the failure that people project when something disappoints. You're back to ground zero, where there's no expectations, and that's where I like to be.”

Quentin Tarantino

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

Martin Scorsese

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

Spike Lee

“I think it would be very boring dramatically to have a film where everybody was a lawyer or doctor and had no faults. To me, the most important thing is to be truthful.”

Michael Powell

“I’m not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through the cinema...”

Wes Anderson

“I know that feeling of looking back and thinking, that part I'd like to fix. So I obsessively try not to compromise.”

Stanley Kubrick

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

John Frankenheimer

“I feel that my job is to create an atmosphere where creative people can do their best work. In other words, I have to create an atmosphere where these people feel safe, where they feel respected, and where they feel that they can contribute.”

Billy Wilder

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

Preston Sturges

“The most incredible thing about my career is that I had one.”

Paul Thomas Anderson

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