Lynne Ramsay

“I've found that film-making's not just a job, it becomes part of your whole life.”

Amy Heckerling

Sofia Coppola

“Perhaps it makes sense that a woman whose earliest memory was on the set of Apocalypse Now would grow up to direct a dark fable about five adolescent girls who unapologetically and unceremoniously kill themselves...”

Jim Jarmusch

“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

Errol Morris

“The proper route to an understanding of the world is an examination of our errors about it.”

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.”