Otto Preminger

[Giving direction to a group of children on Exodus (1960)] "Cry, you little monsters!"

Jacques Tourneur

“I look for very strong visual unity by using a type of framing and camera movement that is very simple. Everything must come from inside. It mustn’t be superficial. I hate weird camera angles and distorting lenses.”

Billy Wilder

“If you're going to tell people the truth, be funny or they'll kill you.”

Andrew Dominik

Woody Allen

“Comedy just pokes at problems, rarely confronts them squarely. Drama is like a plate of meat and potatoes, comedy is rather the dessert, a bit like meringue.”

Orson Welles

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

Francis Ford Coppola

“I'm in a unique situation. I'm like now an elderly retired guy who made a lot of money, and now I can just, instead of playing golf, I can make art films.”

Federico Fellini

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

Martin Scorsese

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

Jean-Luc Godard

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

Stanley Kubrick

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

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.”

Alfred Hitchcock

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

François Truffaut

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

Pedro Almodóvar

“I also wanted to express the strength of cinema to hide reality, while being entertaining. Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.”

Roman Polanski

“You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.”