Artavazd Peleshian

“For me, distance montage opens up the mysteries of the movement of the universe. I can feel how everything is made and put together; I can sense its rhythmic movement.”

Roger Vadim

Noriaki Tsuchimoto

“No matter when or what you say, since it's probably related to what you are wanting to say, I make that unfinished thought or whisper, the change of a small expression very important.”

Alexander Hammid

Harald Reinl

Frank Borzage

“Make the audience sentimental instead of the player. Make the audience act.”

Leonid Trauberg

Grigori Kozintsev

Fridrikh Ermler

Jean Mitry

Gábor Bódy

“I am the dream of my life.”

Robert Bresson

“Make visible what, without you, might perhaps never have been seen.”

Allan A. Goldstein

Idrissa Ouedraogo

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

Marco Ferreri

“The values that once existed no longer exist. The family, the bourgeoisie—I’m talking about values, morals, economic relationships. They no longer serve a purpose. My films are reactions translated into images.”

Walter R. Booth

Peter Yates

“In the last few years, the progress we’ve made is that people have begun to accept that you can’t cop out with pictures—that you have to really be sincere about what you’re doing.”

Zeki Ökten

John Badham

“Knowing that the attention span of kids is not great, don't make it much longer than about 90 minutes. ”

Robert Benton