Carlos Reygadas

“Theatre is interesting as a catharsis for actors because it's the only way you can be idiotic and get away with it. I really, really don't like theatre and I feel so far from it.”

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.”

Len Lye

“One of my art teachers put me onto trying to find my own art theory. After many morning walks…an idea hit me that seemed like a complete revelation. It was to compose motion, just as musicians compose sound. [The idea] was to lead me far, far away from wanting to excel in…traditional art.”

Bruce Baillie

“Being an artist in a cultural Stone Age, I have no income.”

John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

Guy Maddin

“Whatever I do next, it'll be a horror film.”

Dziga Vertov

“I am eye. I am a mechanical eye. I, a machine, am showing you a world, the likes of which only I can see.”

Rajko Grlić

Mike Leigh

“The whole thing about making films in an organic film location is that it's not all about characters, relationships and themes, it's also about place and the poetry of place. It's about the spirit of what you find, the accidents of what you stumble across”

Claire Denis

“Even if it's the dream of a voyage, I think it was very important for me that the film offer the two sides of the globe.”

Chris Marker

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

Lisandro Alonso

“If tomorrow I have to quit filmmaking, I will. I’m not going to sell my house for a project, that’s for sure. If I have to go back and work on my family’s farm, fine. I don’t have any problem with it. But I would cry a lot.”

Paul Sharits

Hollis Frampton

“This whole business of words – the whole sense of tense and complicated problems about knowledge, about making things in relation to all the things that were already made with words – seems to have fallen into film.”

Jean Rouch

“I don’t think there’s any border between science and art. All the fiction films I have made were always on the same subject,—a discovery of the “Other,” an exploration of difference.”

Jay Rosenblatt

Kenneth Anger

[On unemployed filmmakers] "It seems much easier for these people to rent my films, look at them and make notes, than to give them a job."

Germaine Dulac

Man Ray

“It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.”

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.”