Akira Kurosawa

“Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied...that's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.”

Sergio Leone

“In my childhood, America was like a religion. Then, real-life Americans abruptly entered my life in jeeps and upset all my dreams.”

Alfred Hitchcock

“For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake.”

Jean-Luc Godard

“A story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end... but not necessarily in that order. ”

Luis Buñuel

“If someone were to tell me I had twenty years left, and ask me how I'd like to spend them, I'd reply 'Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.'”

Robert Rossen

Orson Welles

“A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.”

Stanley Kubrick

“If it can be written, or thought, it can be filmed.”

François Truffaut

“I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.”

Martin Scorsese

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out.”

Federico Fellini

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