Elio Petri

“Making a movie today needs a lot of madness and a lot of love for cinema. And most probably this is the only positive side of the whole matter.”

Ben Rivers

Naomi Kawase

Bas Jan Ader

Aleqsandre Rekhviashvili

Francesco Rosi

“My films are not policiers, or thrillers, but instead aim to provoke, to insinuate doubts, to challenge the official statements and certainties from the powers that be which hide real interests and the truth.”

Alan J. Pakula

“One of the happiest times in my life was during "The Sterile Cuckoo," mostly because of Liza. I've never seen anybody get more joy out of working and it's contagious.”

Mikhail Kalatozov

Robert Mulligan

“The rhythm and pacing of his films are not of this time.” [Sidney Levin, Editor]

D.A. Pennebaker

“You don’t necessarily need a script or actors to tell a compelling tale. Finding a person at a key moment in his life and rendering the truth as you see it—that’s the truest form of drama.”

Tsai Ming-liang

“The body always plays an important role in my films. You could say the body is the most beautiful thing we have or you could say it’s the ugliest thing we have. We can sell bodies, we can adore or worship bodies.”

Saul Bass

“Design is thinking made visual.”

Phil Karlson

Michel Deville

Jon Jost

Mikhaël Hers

Jeff Nichols

Sion Sono

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.”

Claude Sautet