“As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.” ― John Cassavetes

“The film [Stalker] needs to be slower and duller at the start so that the viewers who walked into the wrong theatre have time to leave before the main action starts.” ― Andrei Tarkovsky

"Continuity is boring." - Peter Greenaway

"Say what you are. Not what you would like to be. Not what you have to be. Just say what you are. And what you are is good enough." - John Cassavetes

"I don't think you go to a play to forget, or to a movie to be distracted. I think life generally is a distraction and that going to a movie is a way to get back, not go away." - Tom Noonan

"I'm totally indifferent to death. I know it well, but I'm totally indifferent to it. The way I see it death could come right now or in a minute, or two hours, or six months. It doesn't matter in the least." - Jean-Pierre Melville