For me, it was all about working with an inspirational…

I still don't feel I know Hitchcock at all. I find that the more one looks, the more elusive he becomes. But my admiration…

— Toby Jones

Love is all a matter of timing. It's no good meeting the right person too soon or too late.

— Wong Kar-wai

I love awards, especially if I get them. It's up to the courage of the filmmakers to make art in cinema, not just business.…

— Ben Gazzara

I think it is kind of depressing how few female filmmakers there are. I think it is in general depressing how few women there…

— Susanne Bier

What I would say to filmmakers, if I may be so bold or so arrogant, is to draw inspiration from other filmmakers, but go…

— Lawrence Bender

Filmmakers get into trouble when they're watching too many DVDs and quoting all the time.

— James Mangold

Even from a really young age I was a huge movie buff - five, six, seven, eight. Just loved movies, but in a more…

— Danny Strong

The terrorists who committed the 2003 Istanbul attacks were locals, that is, Turks. And when filmmaker Theo van Gogh was murdered in the Netherlands…

— Otto Schily

I think Frank Capra was a much craftier filmmaker, a wonderful filmmaker. He had enormous technique, and he knew how to manipulate the public…

— Woody Allen

As a filmmaker, you take reality and you tell a story from it.

— Hany Abu-Assad

I think, as a filmmaker, it's important to be honest with yourself at all times in terms of what's working and what's not.

— Adam Wingard

I decided to be a filmmaker when I was 12. I had utter clarity that this would be my life.

— Tom Hooper

As I became a filmmaker and realized that I had a voice, who better to speak for than kids that are bullied? It's such…

— Lee Hirsch

Gerry Fialka's annual PXL THIS is a reliably surprising and seductive round-up of recent work achieved with the PXL 2000 camera. This humble outdated…

— Michael Almereyda

Most of my characters are romantic rather than sexual. I think that's an essential difference in my pictures. I think they are more accurate…

— John Hughes