Ken Russell

“Life is too short to make destructive films about people one doesn’t like. My films are meant to be constructive and illuminating.”

Bob Fosse

“Dance expresses joy better than anything else.”

Michael Haneke

“Every film is manipulative, raping the viewer. So the question is: Why do I rape the viewer?”

Herbert Ross

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Michelangelo Antonioni

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

Éric Rohmer

“I do not say, I show. I show people who move and speak.”

Brian De Palma

“So I like to try to go back and develop pure visual storytelling. Because to me, it's one of the most exciting aspects of making movies and almost a lost art at this point. ”

Billy Wilder

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

Blake Edwards

“Make 'em redecorate your office. That's primary, to let them know where you stand. Then, when you're shooting interior sequences, use your own interior decorator and set dresser. That way everything on the set will fit your house when you're finished.”

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.”

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Robert Altman

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”

Stanley Donen

“For me directing is like having sex: when it’s good, it’s very good; but when it’s bad, it’s still good.”

Claude Chabrol

“A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.”

Stanley Kubrick

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

Mike Nichols

“Nerves provide me with energy...It's when I don't have them, when I feel at ease, that I get worried.”

Hal Ashby

“Hitchhiked to Los Angeles when I was 17. Had about 50 or 60 jobs up to the time I was working as a Multilith operator at good old Republic Studios.”

Woody Allen

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”