Filmmaker quotes...
"Cinema is an old whore, like circus and variety, who knows how to give many kinds of pleasure. Besides, you can't teach old fleas new dogs."
- Fredrico Fellini

"Censorship is advertising paid by the government."
- Fredrico Fellini

"All you need for a movie is a gun and a girl."
- Jean Luc Godard

"I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas"
- Jean Luc Godard

"To be or not to be. That's not really a question."
- Jean Luc Godard

"How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: 'The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.' This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don't want this to happen to 2001."
- Stanley Kubrick

"The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes."
Stanley Kubrick


"Man is a genius when he is dreaming."
- Akira Kurosawa

"Take myself: subtract movies; and the result is zero."
- Akira Kurosawa

"In a mad world, only the mad are sane."
- Akira Kurosawa


"It’s impossible for one to be totally honest about oneself:
it’s much easier when pretending to be other people."
-Akira Kurosawa

"We all know interspecies romance is weird."
- Tim Burton

"We live in an age when it is cheaper to buy the rights to movies than to make them."
- Hayao Miyazaki

"I steal from every movie ever made."
- Quentin Tarantino

"Film lovers are sick people."
- Francois Truffaut

"I hope I never get so old I get religious."
- Ingmar Bergman

"Actors are cattle."
- Alfred Hitchcock

"For me, the cinema is not a slice of life, but a piece of cake."
- Alfred Hitchcock


"Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese."
- Luis Bunuel

"I'd love to sell out completely. It's just that nobody has been willing to buy."
- John Waters


"There's nothing gratuitous about my films."
- Dario Argento !