“In the ’60s I thought that editing was the moment of law and order—like the police—on the body of a movie…but in the early ’70s I met [editor] Kim Arcalli, who made me discover that editing could be a fantastic moment, a creative moment…” –Bernardo Bertolucci
“I know that people who look attentively at my films see…”
“I know that people who look attentively at my films see a toughness in them…because my films are not sentimental, even if they are built on sentiment.” –Francois Truffaut
“No biopics, no prequels, no sequels…”
“No biopics, no prequels, no sequels, no hero movies, no antihero movies, and definitely no superhero movies. Anything else I can handle.” –Pedro Almodovar
“Why make a movie about…?”
“Why make a movie about something one understands completely? I make movies about things I do not understand, but wish to.”
–Seijun Suzuki
“Perhaps the future of cinema is in the hands of…”
“Perhaps the future of cinema is in the hands of a few youngsters who’ll make films with the little money in their pockets without shackling themselves to an industrial mindset.”
–Robert Bresson
“I love editing…”
“I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of filmmaking. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.”
–Stanley Kubrick
