Roger Watkins

[on Last House on Dead End Street] "When the film screened in Dallas, a riot followed. In Chicago someone tried to burn the cinema down after it screened. People really reacted harshly to it."

Stuart Gordon

[On H. P. Lovecraft] That's the thing, he used his phobias. Fear of things that are different or unknown is sort of a central theme to a lot of his stories.

Gregg Araki

“I couldn’t make movies like this if I started to worry about what Jerry Falwell is going to have to say about it.”

Larry Clark

“Why didn’t they go further? If I’d done that film, I would have done it differently.”

Agustí Villaronga

José Ramón Larraz

Hisayasu Sato

Shûji Terayama

“Lying down in the attic, where angry waves sound very close, I make poetry my power.”

Otto Mühl

“Art is an attack, an accusation. It is not my fault that my films are suffused with the stench of concentration camps.”

Kurt Kren

Carmelo Bene

“[Cinema] it’s the celebration of the Lumière Brothers. That is: since the Lumière period, what has come out of it? If you exclude that minimum of "self-fright” sought at all costs, or that hint of bewilderment in certain African tribes, at the sight of that train. The Lumières… I think their commemoration goes on since 19th century. The same one which has been perpetuated.”

Jean Rollin

“The fantastic cinema is always a good vehicle for discussing certain political ideas in the form of symbols and metaphors.”

Frans Zwartjes

“My own motor system determined the film style.”

Stephen Quay

[On their style] "A world as seen through a dirty pane of glass."

Timothy Quay

"The Quays' 'aesthetics of degraded reality' finds beauty in industrial decay, moldering fabric, rust, dirt, grime, the discarded, the broken, the derelict, the deformed, human and non-human abnormalities, pathologies, and anomalies. Beauty lies precisely in that which contemporary mainstream society neglects and discards." —James Fiumara

Jack Smith

“I was knocking myself out to make this stuff. And I always assumed that people would see this and have pity and give me a little support. [shouts] They didn’t!”

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.”

Paul Morrissey

“Films are about personality: the better the personality, the better the film.”

Paul Verhoeven

“People love seeing violence and horrible things. The human being is bad and he can't stand more than five minutes of happiness. Put him in a dark theater and ask him to look at two hours of happiness and he'd walk out or fall asleep.”

Věra Chytilová

“I have no desire to cuddle my audience.”