Ai Weiwei

Peter Whitehead

Béla Tarr

“I think censorship is always there. Then it was the censorship of the state and now it's the censorship of the market.”

Stephen Dwoskin

“I do not reflect on the media, I do my work, I work on people.”

Margaret Tait

“The kind of cinema I care about is at the level of poetry - in fact - it has been in a way my life's work making film poems.”

Fred Kelemen

“They are just movies, individual artistic expressions, personal reflections of reality.”

Adam Curtis

“I want to try to make people look at things they think they know about in a new way.”

Idrissa Ouedraogo

“My being black does not necessarily mean that I have read neither Kant nor Molière…”

Ritwik Ghatak

“Why films? Because I am totally crazy. I can’t live without making films. I look at the struggle and misery of contemporary life. And try to say something to the best of my ability.”

Ben Russell

Chantal Akerman

“When people ask me if I am a feminist film maker, I reply I am a woman and I also make films.”

Darezhan Omirbaev

“The cinema is an urban art.”

Ernst Lubitsch

“There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.”

Ben Rivers

Lucky McKee

“At some point or another we realize that we’ll be alone for our entire lives. Alone in our minds. No one else can get inside there and truly see what’s going on.”

Masahiro Shinoda

“It is much more fun to look at evil than to look at good!”

João César Monteiro

“I will be dust, but dust in love.”

Matthew Barney

“A lot of my work has to do with not allowing my characters to have an ego in a way that the stomach doesn't have an ego when it's wanting to throw up. It just does it.”

Grzegorz Królikiewicz

Gustav Deutsch

“[about FILM IST.] I’m not interested in the content of these scientific films. I am interested in the meaning that is given by the image. I wanted to detect the poetry and the power of the images of very straight-forward, rational, scientific movies.”