Acknowledgment Quote by Abbas Kiarostami

I take particular care in authenticity and specificity when working in cultures not my own. Every aspect of the filmmaking here was meticulously researched,…

— Niki Caro

The language of cinema as it has evolved has also excluded vast swathes of human experience. The forms we find in the process of…

— Sally Potter

The mecca of filmmaking in the world just so happens to be in America. It's quite simply a case of us just going where…

— Alex O'Loughlin

Everybody is completely different. I think there is no formula for filmmaking. Everybody finds their own way of doing things.

— Mia Wasikowska

Film is very much a universal and common voice, and we can't limit it to one particular culture.

— Abbas Kiarostami

I always thought that's the wonderful thing about filmmaking: people see things differently.

— Thelma Schoonmaker

When I say that I am going to do an American film, I didn't want to suddenly go off into a completely different world…

— Park Chan-wook

Film, therefore, is part of society, not distant from it, easy to experience for people regardless of class.

— Mark Poster

I began to exercise a lot of cinematic muscle with the precepts I had learned in the New York art world. Film was intriguing.…

— Kathryn Bigelow

We live in a very masculine society, a very patriarchal society, still. So we also have the benefit of the experience of that society.…

— Pollyanna McIntosh

I come from a culture where you don’t divide it up to what you can do on TV and what you can do on…

— Mads Mikkelsen

I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become.

— Gus Van Sant