movies written by movies are expressed by the relationship between images and sounds, not by the imitation of actions and tones (of actors or non-actors). It doesn't analyze or explain. It regroups. -Robert Bresson (France)

To better understand the tendency of a film, it is best to first understand how the film shows its tendency. -andre bazan (France)

I'm old now. The older I get, the deeper I think. I can't catch things on the water. I'm thinking underwater. Jean-Luc Ge Daer (French)

When fantasy turns to love, intuition doesn't always follow. -Eric Hou Mai (French)

The foundation of film art lies in editing. -pudovkin (Soviet Union)

Actors are also human beings, no different from others. A writer, painter or musician can hide in a corner to lick his wounds, but an actor has to stand in public and endure the pain. -Maureen Stapleton (USA)

My films have never been realistic. They are mirrors, fragments of reality, almost like dreams. -ingmar bergman (Sweden)

I'm not interested in the development of the plot and the series of events. I think my movies don't need the plot every time. -andrei tarkovsky (Soviet Union)

Let a person be in an ever-changing environment, let him pass by countless people far or near, and let him have a relationship with the whole world: this is the meaning of movies. -andrei tarkovsky (Soviet Union)

The film started in Griffith and ended in Stamey, Chiaro (Abbas). Jean-Luc Ge Daer (France)

It's hard to find the exact words to comment on Chiaro Stamey (Abbas)' s films. Just watch it and you can understand how great he is. I was very sad when Ray died. Later, I saw the film of Chiaro Stamey, and I thought that God sent this man to replace Ray. Thank god. -Akira Kurosawa (Japan)

Dreams should be rooted in reality. -abbas kiarostami (Iranian)

I have repeatedly said that as a filmmaker, if I make a movie, the audience should see 1 of their own movies from this movie, and every audience can see his own movies. This is what I strive to do. -abbas kiarostami (Iranian)

I prefer movies that make the audience fall asleep in the cinema. I think such movies are considerate enough for you to take a good nap, and there is no trouble when you leave the cinema. There were movies that made me fall asleep in the cinema, but it was the same movie that kept me awake all night, thinking about it until dawn, even for weeks. This is my favorite movie. -abbas kiarostami (Iran)

Dreams begin with scripts and end with movies. -george lucas (USA)

Every time you perform a role, the actor must live in it. -konstantin stanislavsky (Soviet Union)

I left footprints for future generations to pursue. -Derek Jarman (UK)

The whole life, the whole action, is a natural and vivid film. -pier paolo pasolini (Italian)

We can never predict the outcome of a movie. Every film has a narrow door, and we can only decide whether we should step into it by our own judgment. -Kristof Khiesz Lovsky (Poland)

The best movies are made for the deaf and the dumb. Human beings are chattering and talking, and they are drowning in it. Only by watching ballet can we find pure beauty and pure posture, which is exactly what my film tries to express. -sergei parajanov (Armenia)

A movie is a play, and it cannot be made into an accidental event. -Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)

(Avant-garde) method has such dangers: 1. The author has come to the conclusion that it is like being asked by a primary school teacher some simple questions that do not need to be asked at all. 2. The author completely gives up the desire to draw conclusions, and it is honest to ask questions that he doesn't understand truthfully, but he is satisfied with providing extremely incomplete images at a very low level. There are as many films as there are in the works that call themselves avant-garde. -Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)

When truth and falsehood are mixed, truth highlights falsehood, but falsehood prevents us from believing truth. An actor pretends to be afraid of sinking on the deck of a real ship, which is slapped by a real storm. We don't believe the actor, the ship and the storm. -Robert Bresson (France)

My life experience tells me that abnormal class relations and unsympathetic interpersonal relationships are reality. -Jin Jide (ROK)

One image must be transformed when it touches other images, just as one color touches other colors. The blue next to green, yellow or red is not the same blue. There is no art without transformation. -Robert Bresson (France)

I am like a radar. I accept things and then reflect them like a mirror, mixed with memories, dreams and ideas. -ingmar bergman (Sweden)

One of the phenomena when people get old is that childhood memories will emerge more and more clearly, while the major events in their prime are blurred and even disappear. -ingmar bergman (Sweden)

I want to build a house with my movies. Some make cellars, some make walls and others make windows. However, I hope it can become a house in the end. -Lai Na Wiener fassbinder (Germany)

When I tell a story in a very personal way, it will be recognized by more people than when I try to tell it in a universal language. -Lai Na Wiener fassbinder (Germany)

What I really think is beautiful will definitely not last long. -Hur Jin-ho (ROK)

I am who I am. If I have to be true to myself by hitting my head against the wall, then I am willing. -Marlon Brando (USA)

Hollywood is dominated by fear and love of money. But that won't dominate me, because I am fearless and not greedy for money. -Marlon Brando (USA)

I'm not afraid of death, but I don't want to be there when I'm dying. Woody Allen (USA)

In order to defend Korean movies, we can even die! -Lin Quanze (ROK)

By the age of thirteen, people think they are very important to the world, and the world is just ready to forgive your naivety. -Chen Kaige (China)

Don't make faces at me, the performance is not that complicated. -Lawrence Oliver (UK)

Stupidity is infinitely more charming and profound than wisdom. There is a limit to wisdom, but not to stupidity. -claude chabrol (France)

If cinema can be used to describe the sufferings of the people, it can at least promote the self-vigilance of the society and let the society think for itself how to improve itself. -Sun Yu (China)

A screenwriter and director should not just put a story on film casually, but at least he should be a writer, a writer with a unique style and correct understanding, which is owned by the public. -Cai Chusheng (China)

If China will be good, so will domestic films. -Fei Mu (China)

A bomb must not explode. If it doesn't explode, the audience will always be nervous. -Alfred Hitchcock (UK)

The essence of acting is to treat life as an experiment, and to explore the strange things and joys and sorrows of life between scenes. -susan sarandon (USA)

I have been recording the process of national evolution synchronously. I live in an era of change, which requires a director to judge sensitively and synchronously. I believe my work will become a landmark group of buildings in China. -Jia Zhangke (China)

I have all the shortcomings of director China, such as drama. I love drama very much. I grew up reading storytelling and Zhang Hui's novels, but I know that it is a defect. We simplified, entertained and legendary the reality. -Jia Zhangke (China)

There is a kind of film that requires a long time to accumulate, and there is a kind of inspiration that needs lightning. -Jia Zhangke (China)

No matter what theme I adopted, I actually talked about religious themes. Only their salvation took place in the street, not in the church. -martin scorsese (USA)

I am an independent production director! People always say that my movies are like Hollywood movies, or just Hollywood movies. But Hollywood wants to copy me. What can I do? -george lucas (USA)

Whether you are a hero or a gangster, remember to make your role human, that is, give him some opposite qualities as much as possible without affecting his main identity in the story. -Don Richardson (USA)

We don't reveal our true thoughts everywhere, we only reveal what we want others to believe. -Don Richardson (USA)

The only movies I can't make are Gion Sisters by Mizoguchi (Kenji) and Floating Clouds by Sese (Mikio)-Yasujirō Ozu (Japan)

Every day I don't make a film, I feel like I'm missing a day. In this way, filming is like making love. -federico fellini (Italy)