Rob Tregenza

“When the time comes, I'll find something that I want to make a film of. I've gotten to the point where I'm not driven to make movies. I've made three films and I'm more patient, I can wait to see what God has in store.”

Bo Widerberg

James Benning

“I have a very simple definition of an artist. The artist is someone who pays attention and reports back.”

Amat Escalante

Miklós Jancsó

“An artist should be able to create his own autonomous world, but making a film depends on so many extraneous factors that I don’t really think it’s an authentic form of art.”

Sharunas Bartas

“Sadness is a much more stable emotion in people than happiness.”

Věra Chytilová

“I have no desire to cuddle my audience.”

Mohsen Makhmalbaf

“From my films, you can at least learn about Iran, you can get a sense of the history and the society. But no such films have been made about Afghanistan, so you really can't know much about it.”

Victor Sjöström

“The thing that brought me into filmmaking was a youthful desire for adventure and a curiosity to try this new medium.”

Béla Tarr

“I think censorship is always there. Then it was the censorship of the state and now it's the censorship of the market.”

Aleksandr Sokurov

“The surface of the screen and that of the canvas are one and the same.”

Pier Paolo Pasolini

“The mark which has dominated all my work is this longing for life, this sense of exclusion, which doesn't lessen but augments this love of life.”

Abbas Kiarostami

“But in all, I don't like to engage in telling stories. I don't like to arouse the viewer emotionally or give him advice. I don't like to belittle him or burden him with a sense of guilt. These are the things I don't like in the movies.”

Krzysztof Kieślowski

“Maybe it is worth investigating the unknown, if only because the very feeling of not knowing is a painful one.”

Hou Hsiao-hsien

“The main thing is for the actors to forget the camera. They have to act as if they are working in a documentary.”

Charlie Chaplin

“Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

Ingmar Bergman

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”