Jang Sun-woo

“When I ask questions in my films regarding traditionally oriented ways of thinking, some people can appreciate them, some others can criticize them; either way the important thing is to provoke discussion and even controversy.”

Peter Hutton

“Practice, practice, practice and the camera becomes your eye and not so much this complicated technological thing to mediate to get an image.”

Walter Ruttmann

Fernando Birri

Robert McKimson

Mamoru Oshii

“The strength behind Japanese animation is based in the designers' pencil. Even if he mixes 2D, 3D, and computer graphics, the foundation is still 2D. Only doing 3D does not interest me.”

Jim Henson

“The Muppets transcend all age groups. Their satiric comment on society seems to delight all ages.”

Jean Painlevé

Jordan Belson

“The distinction between an external scene perceived in the usual way and the scene perceived with the inner eye is very slight to me.”

Standish Lawder

Alice Guy-Blaché

Christopher Maclaine

Joachim Trier

“I think, to create reality in film, you still have to go through constructedness; you gotta go through a process of artifice anyways. I'm not one of those people who thinks, "Oh, the real person will seem real on the screen;" to create something that is seemingly real takes a lot of work. But having said that, I try to structure the scenes quite tightly, but then within that, leave them some space to go unexpected places.”

Steve McQueen

“My influences come from real life. I’m not interested in cinema for cinema’s sake. I’m interested in life—what one does and how one interacts.”

Nikos Zervos

Dinos Dimopoulos

Vittorio De Seta

Lech Majewski

“Always what I’m trying to do with cinema is trying to create a sense of painting. That’s my lost world of painting that I’m accessing by film.”

Georges Schwizgebel

Aleksandr Petrov

“Painting is very sensual…I use only five or six colors, combining and recombining them, to get the look of spring. ”