Robert Downey Sr.

“When it goes together with film, it's a beautiful thing. When the right music and the right images go together, they make something else, whatever that is.”

Scott Derrickson

Seijun Suzuki

“I was never rebellious, I was just mischievous!”

Paul W.S. Anderson

“The way people watch films has changed.”

Franklin J. Schaffner

Douglas Trumbull

“I don’t think it’s possible for special effects to overwhelm the story if it is a strong story. There are too many films that have been made where special effects are holding up a lousy story, or poor performances or poor direction. But as long as the direction is solid and the concept of the film is solid, special effects can’t do anything but enhance.”

Alexander Korda

“The art of filmmaking is to come to the brink of bankruptcy and stare it in the face.”

Zoltán Korda

Andrei Tarkovsky

“Juxtaposing a person with an environment that is boundless, collating him with a countless number of people passing by close to him and far away, relating a person to the whole world, that is the meaning of cinema.”

Howard Hawks

“I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! ”

Lars von Trier

“I think it's important that we all try to give something to this medium, instead of just thinking about what is the most efficient way of telling a story or making an audience stay in a cinema.”

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”

Peter R. Hunt

Monte Hellman

“I've been in love with the movies as long as I can remember.”

Robert Altman

“Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.”

Oliver Stone

“I consider my films first and foremost to be dramas about individuals in personal struggles and I consider myself to be a dramatist before I am a political filmmaker.”

Todd Solondz

“Some people will of course accuse me of misanthropy and cynicism. I can’t celebrate humanity but I’m not out to indict it either. I just want to expose certain truths.”

Samuel Fuller

“Movement should be a counter, whether in action scenes or dialogue or whatever. It counters where your eye is going. This style thing, for me it's all fitted to the action, to the script, to the characters.”

Albert Maysles

“Documentary can requote reality I think more honestly and authentically, when done properly, than any other medium. If it is practiced properly, then it is more like photography than cinematography.”

David Maysles

“The most exciting thing in life is to watch the meeting of two strangers.”