Louis Feuillade

“French production is not definitively outclassed by the Americans and that we are not henceforward going to be reduced always to be following in others’ footsteps.”

Chris Marker

“Rarely has reality needed so much to be imagined.”

Guy Maddin

“Whatever I do next, it'll be a horror film.”

Rudolph Maté

Michael Powell

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

Jean Renoir

“A director makes only one movie in his life. Then he breaks it into pieces and makes it again.”

Ernst Lubitsch

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

Federico Fellini

“What is an artist? A provincial who finds himself somewhere between a physical reality and a metaphysical one...”

Charlie Chaplin

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

Buster Keaton

“I don't act anyway. The stuff is all injected as we go along. My pictures are made without script or written directions of any kind.”