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.”

Mary Bronstein

Terence Davies

“Martin Scorsese is a huge name! I'm not a huge name. I go into a room full of people and I'm the only person I've not heard of.”

Kelly Reichardt

“I like working in a really private way. I mean, we got as far as a cut of [Old Joy] without speaking to any kind of lawyer or anything. We got into Sundance before we thought we should form a company. Aside from a lot of sound work and stuff still to go, it was all very private, and that’s a dream for me.”

Albert Brooks

“When I die, if the word ‘thong’ appears in the first or second sentence of my obituary, I’ve screwed up.”

David Fincher

“I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again.”

Steven Soderbergh

“To me the director's job is to leave it in better shape than you found it, literally.”

Lynne Ramsay

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

Abel Ferrara

“I was raised a Catholic and when you're raised a Catholic they don't teach you to think for yourself...you're taught not to think too deeply about things.”

Mike Judge

“I don't think any movie I would do would be too serious or serious at all. ”

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.”

Gaspar Noé

“A lot of people cry at the end of the movie. Some people come out and smoke a cigarette. Some people go for a walk or a cigarette in the middle of the movie. Each person handles the movie as he wants...”

Andy Warhol

“If you want to know all about Andy Warhol, just look at the surface of my paintings and films and me, there I am. There’s nothing behind it.”

Ernst Lubitsch

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

Hong Sang-soo

“When I finish a film, I feel like I have overcome a certain hurdle. It's really good for me as a human being, and I hope that for some people, my films will do the same thing.”

Kenji Mizoguchi

“You must put the odor of the human body into images...describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel...there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.”

Paul Cox

“If you want to do anything seriously, do it as a hobby. I've always believed this. As soon as it becomes a profession, a degree of compromise comes in. . Photography was my profession; cinematography my hobby. It was a safe start.”

Ron Mann

Héctor Babenco

“I don't really believe that I am a political movie director. My strongest impulse has always been to flee from definitions, flags and ideologies.”

Robert Rossen