1. I leave my footprints for future generations to follow. ——Derek Jarman

2. It’s not that I’m afraid of death, it’s just that when death comes, I don’t want to be there. ——Woody Allen

3. Every time a character is played, the actor must live in the character. ——Konstantin Stanislavsky

4. The whole of life, the whole of its actions, is a natural and vivid movie. ——Pier Paolo Pasolini

5. Films written by cinema are expressed through the relationship between images and sounds, rather than through the imitation of movements and tones (of actors or non-actors). . It does not analyze or explain. It reorganizes. ——Robert Bresson

6. The movie begins with Griffith and ends with Kiarostami (Abbas). ——Jean-Luc Godard

7. Actors are also human beings, no different from others. A writer, painter, or musician can hide in a corner and lick his wounds clean, but an actor must endure the pain in public. ——Maureen Stapleton

8. If movies can be used to describe the suffering of the people, it can at least promote social self-policing and let society think about how it should improve itself. ——Sun Yu

9. My life experience tells me that abnormal class relations and relationships between people without sympathy are the reality. ——Kim Ki-duk

10. Don’t wink at me, acting is not that complicated. ——Laurence Olivier

11. Put a person in an ever-changing environment, let him pass by countless people far or near, and let him interact with the whole world. Relationships: This is what movies are about. ——Andrei Tarkovsky

12. I am not interested in the development of the plot or the connection of events. I think that each of my movies does not need a plot.

——Andrei Tarkovsky