Dziga Vertov’s EyeI'm an eye. A mechanical eye. I, the machine, show you a world the way only I can see it.Dziga Vertov
André Bazin: The Ontology of the Photographic ImageThe Ontology of the Photographic Image by André Bazin's Qu'est-ce que le cinéma? (What is Cinema?)
Satyajit Ray on CinemaIt’s enough if you can make people think and feel - clearly and honestly.Satyajit Ray
Pasolini: L’anarchia del potereNulla è più anarchico del potere, il potere fa praticamente ciò che vuolePier Paolo Pasolini
Jacques Rivette: Should filmmakers see movies?The fact that I see so many films really seems to amaze certain people.Jacques Rivette
Jodorowsky on filmmakingMost directors make films with their eyes; I make films with my testiclesAlejandro Jodorowsky
Ingmar Bergman’s DreamsNo other art medium–neither painting nor poetry–can communicate the specific quality of the dream as well as the film can.Ingmar Bergman
Żuławski on pleasing the majorityI don't make a concession to viewers, these victims of life, who think that a film is made only for their enjoymentAndrzej Żuławski
Alain Robbe-Grillet: What is Formalism?There is a famous Russian cartoon in which a hippopotamus, in the bush, points out a zebra to another hippopotamus: "You see," he says, "now that’s formalism."Alain Robbe-Grillet
Trans-Europ-Express EroticismThese black corsets, these slit skirts, these chains, these popular erotic images that I treated as you say fairly stereotypical belong, I believe, to a collective erotic material Alain Robbe-Grillet
John Cassavetes on ArtArt, meaning that we will enjoy ourselves and express ourselves freely.John Cassavetes
