George A. Romero

“If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.”

Judd Apatow

“It's so difficult to shock America these days.”

Greg Mottola

Don Hertzfeldt

“Some people can do great things with CG, but that world just doesn’t interest me or inspire me. I’ve never felt really creative or intuitive using software. I like paper and pens and paint. I need to angle real lights on my artwork and work with my hands and build props. Computers just take all that fun out of it.”

Walter Hill

“Every film I've done has been a Western. The Western is ultimately a stripped down moral universe that is, whatever the dramatic problems are, beyond the normal avenues of social control and social alleviation of the problem, and I like to do that even within contemporary stories.”

Park Chan-wook

“The audience seems hazy to me, shrouded in a veil through which I can't see.”

Clive Barker

“Some people think that horror films are some sort of second class filmmaking, and the only way to bypass that thinking is being proud of the fact that we do 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.

Rob Zombie

“NC-17 means that you get it in like 3 theaters. They won't run the spots on TV, won't run the advertising. It's the kiss of death so there was really no other choice.”

John Waters

“Some call me director, producer, filmmaker. I prefer to call myself pube-king.”

Noah Baumbach

“If I had to sell Life Aquatic to a producer, well, I wouldn't say it's like an Éric Rohmer film under water.”

Claire Denis

“Even if it's the dream of a voyage, I think it was very important for me that the film offer the two sides of the globe.”

Terry Zwigoff

“I keep going back to the Forties and Fifties for films, I go back to the Twenties and Thirties for music. For some reason I really like these films from the Forties and Fifties, whether they’re American, French, whatever… I can’t quite put my finger on it, “dark” is the best way I know to describe the quality that I like in them.”

Alfonso Cuarón

“The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.”

Richard Linklater

“I've always liked the minds of criminals, they seem similar to artists. ”

Neil Jordan

“My conception of it was that in a normal film you have a story with different movements that program, develop, go a little bit off the trunk, come back, and end. ”

Jim Jarmusch

“I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ”

David Lynch

“I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”

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.”

Harmony Korine

“What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.”