It’s validating to know that if you keep making good work, the types of people that you want to work with you will find you. —Laura Merians Gonçalves, DP
Source: http://voyagela.com/interview/meet-laura-merians-goncalves-cinematographer-inglewood/

Astronomers estimate that the [Pleiades star] cluster will survive for about another 250 million years, after which it will disperse due to gravitational interactions with its galactic neighborhood.
--Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades

Telemachus, speaking to his mother, Penelope: But go into the house, and take your work with you, the loom and the distaff, and bid your handmaids to do their work. But stories concern men, all men, but especially me, for mine is the power in the house.
--Homer's Odyssey (ca. 800 BCE), 1.356-359

When a motion picture is at its best, it is long on action and short on dialogue. When it tells its story and reveals its characters in a series of simple, beautiful, active pictures, and does it with as little talk as possible, then the motion picture medium is being used to its fullest advantage.
--John Ford, quoted in "The Old Wrangler Rides Again," by Bill Libby, Cosmpolitan, March 1964, pp. 113-21

[Orchestras respond better to male conductors because men] "often have less sexual energy and can focus more on the music....[A] sweet girl on the podium can make one's thoughts drift towards something else"....[W]hen women have families it is difficult to be as dedicated as is required in this business." —Vasily Petrenko, chief conductor, Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra, August, 2013

The eroticism which reigns so imperiously...in literature and on the stage and in films, it is a symptom, the most obvious perhaps, of a moral disease. Erotomania, that is, the disease of eros,...would not exist if eros were healthy, and by healthy I mean balanced proportionate to the measure and condition of man. Man is uneasy, however,...and...reacts with a surge of erotic obsession. Disaster in my film is an erotic impulse of this sort: unhappy, ignoble, and useless.
--Michelangelo Antonioni—following the release of L’Avventura: A Moral Adventure (1960)

Bertolucci filmed a scene for Last Tango in Paris that showed Brando's genitals. He explained in an interview, "I had so identified myself with Brando that I cut it out of shame for myself. To show him naked would have been like showing me naked."
--"Tango: The Hottest Movie," by Charles Michener, Newsweek, February 12, 1973

[A]fter the exaggerated reception and publicity for “The 400 Blows”—its disproportionate success—I became quite agitated. So I touched on the notions of celebrity and obscurity in “Shoot the Piano Player”—reversed them, in fact, since here it is a famous person who becomes unknown. There are glimpses in this film, then, of the feeling that troubled me at the time.
--Francois Truffaut, as quoted by Bert Cardullo in "Alter Ego, Autobiography, and Auteurism: François Truffaut’s Last Interview," The New Yorker, August 16, 2010

«Mon film illustre aussi d’autres écarts générationnels. Pour nos parents, la grande question était matérielle, il n’était pas rare qu’une famille n’ait pas assez d’ustensiles pour manger en même temps, il s’agissait avant tout de subvenir aux besoins fondamentaux. Même aujourd’hui, alors qu’il y a moins de pénurie, seule la possession de biens matériels les rassure. Alors que dans ma génération, où l’on est tous enfants uniques, tous les biens et les attentions ont été tournés vers nous et notre confort. On n’est plus dans cette inquiétude, et notre problématique première est plus existentielle.»
—Interview with Chinese filmmaker, Gu Xiaogang.
https://next.liberation.fr/cinema/2019/12/30/gu-xiaogang-la-chine-va-trop-vite-il-faut-donc-une-camera-patiente_1771401

Frédérick: Une merveille ce petit vin chaud. C'est le bon dieu qui vous déscend dans la gorge en culottes de velours rouges.
Frédérick: This mulled wine is splendid. It goes down like God in red velvet tights.
--Les Enfants du Paradis (1945); Marcel Carné, director; Jacques Prévert, screenplay

Lacenaire: J'aurais versé des flots de sang vous auriez eu des rivières de diamants.
Garance: J'en demande pas tant.
Lacenaire: I'd spill torrents of blood to give you rivers of diamonds.
Garance: I'd settle for less.
--Les Enfants du Paradis (1945); Marcel Carné, director; Jacques Prévert, screenplay

Baptiste: Comme vous êtes belle.
Garance: Je ne suis pas belle, je suis vivante, c'est tout.
Baptiste: You're so beautiful.
Garance: I'm not beautiful, I'm just alive.
--Les Enfants du Paradis (1945); Marcel Carné, director; Jacques Prévert, screenplay

Q. Ton discours d’acceptation du prix Nobel va rester dans l’Histoire car it a été prononcé par le seul lauréat ovationné avant la fin de son discours et parce que ce même lauréat a été sue le point de quitter la tribune en larmes…
R. Je me suis surpris moi-même de cet élan d’émotion, mais je crois qu’il était moins dû au prix que je venais de recevoir qu’au fait de parler de ma femme, Patricia, à qui je dois beaucoup. En fait, c’est ce qui m’a ému. Cela ne m’était jamais arrivé, tu sais? C’est peut-être parce que c’était la première fois que je reconnaissais publiquement la dette immense que j’ai envers elle. Patricia a été quelqu’un d’essentiel dans ma vie, tant sur le plan personnel que professionnel. Elle a aménagé notre vie de sorte que je puisse me consacrer entièrement à l’écriture et à la lecture. --Mario Vargas Llosa, “Le Condor,” Vogue Paris, Avril 2013, p. 226

(0:04) For him, movies are his life. Absolutely. —Susi Haneke, wife of film director Michael Haneke
(39:08) I then indulge myself, which can get quite obnoxious…l I save myself through work and it’s all good again….It would be harder without my wife. I’m lucky enough to be happily married, and as one says, it’s a great help. You’re less likely to get stuck in your own mind. — Michael Haneke
(40:27) When he’s written something he shows it to me proudly….He goes to the countryside to write so we don’t see each other much. I’ll join him on Fridays and he’ll show me what he’s done. —Susi Haneke
Excerpted from "Michael Haneke, My Life" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twstothrZVU