Rouben Mamoulian

“Color, like all power, can be harmful and destructive when used badly, life-giving and creative when used well. Animals and human beings have been and are unconsciously subject to a strange hypnotic influence of color. How many times have you walked into a strange house and felt depressed because of the color of the wall-paper! How many times have you found consolation in the rich riot of shades of a gorgeous sunset?”

George Roy Hill

André Delvaux

Claude Chabrol

“A woman confronting men is a proper subject, it is inexhaustible.”

Alexandre Astruc

“After having been successively a fairground attraction, an amusement analogous to boulevard theatre, or a means of preserving the images of an era, [cinema] it is gradually becoming a language. By language, I mean a form in which and by which an artist can express his thoughts, however abstract they may be, or translate his obsessions exactly as he does in the contemporaryessay or novel. That is why I would like to call this new age of cinema the age of caméra-stylo (camera-pen).”

Michelangelo Antonioni

“Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.”

Bryan Forbes

“I was a writer who became an actor who became a screenwriter who became a director.”

Michel Deville

David Mamet

“A good film script should be able to do completely without dialogue. ”

Michael Powell

“I’m not a director with a personal style, I am simply cinema. I have grown up with and through the cinema...”

Ernst Lubitsch

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

Whit Stillman

“For me, the present is a golden era that’s ending too. That’s the greatest golden era. Right now. [Laughs.] I just like pining for lost times. I can pine for this morning.”