"The most difficult thing in the world is to reveal yourself. As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above al, we must dare to fail. You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all." - John Cassavetes... [Cycle of top directors 12].
"The individual in relation to the collective, reality problems, not film problems, a dialogue that is not written but that feels spoken, a reality that is not constructed but feels studied." - Bo Widerberg... [Cycle of top directors 10].
"If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience and discipline in choosing between alternatives at a time when an impulsive decision seems very attractive." - Stanley Kubrick. [Cycle of top directors 9].
"There is a great streak of violence in every human being. If it is not channelled and understood, it will break out in war or in madness." - Sam Peckinpah... [Cycle of top directors 8].
"It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself."
- Rainer Werner Fassbinder... [Cycle of top directors 7].
"He doesn’t exactly look Russian, either: he’s half Jewish, half Armenian. He was a sex symbol; he was Elvis Presley, a legend. We don’t have many legends like that. A lot of people have Dovlatov tattoos." - Andrey German Jr... [Cycle of top directors VI].
"All the characters in my films are fighting these problems, needing freedom, trying to find a way to cut themselves loose, but failing to rid themselves of conscience, a sense of sin, the whole bag of tricks." - Michelangelo Antonioni. [Cycle of top directors V].
"Unlike all the other art forms, film is able to seize and render the passage of time, to stop it, almost to possess it in infinity. I'd say that film is the sculpting of time." - Andrey Tarkovsky... [Cycle of top directors 3].