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“We all steal, but if we're smart we steal from great directors. Then, we can call it influence.”
― Krzysztof Kieslowski

“I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.”
― Peter Greenaway

“I foresee no possibility of venturing into themes showing a closer view of reality for a long time to come. The public itself will not have it. What it wants is a gun and a girl.”
― D.W. Griffith

“Cinema is a matter of what's in the frame and what's out”
― Martin Scorsese

“Film as dream, film as music. No art passes our conscience in the way film does, and goes directly to our feelings, deep down into the dark rooms of our souls.”
― Ingmar Bergman

“I want to be violated by insight.”
― Aimee Bender, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt

“The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference.”
― Elie Wiesel