Richard Linklater

"Daydreaming is a productive activity." Richard Linklater.



Aki Kaurismaki

"I might look like a cool guy, but I am most sentimental. I care about others, not too much about myself." Aki Kaurismaki

Todd Solondz

"Who'd play me on screen? It would be a great challenge for George Clooney". Todd Solondz

Christopher Guest

"I love airport lounges. Los Angeles is a bad place for me, because there's so little street life or public space. The good places are New York, London and Paris, where behaviour is out in the open. Basically, my whole job is to look at people in public and watch the way they behave and listen to them talk." Christopher Guest.

Michael Winterbottom

"If I had to put together a Michael Winterbottom retrospective, I'd call it 'Struggle, Actually'." Michael Winterbottom

John Cassavetes

“I have a need for the characters to really analyse love; discuss it, kill it, destroy it, hurt each other... And all the rest of the stuff doesn’t interest me. It may interest other people. But I – y’know, one track mind. That’s all that interests me. Is love." John Cassavetes

Hal Hartley

"Never underestimate the weirdness of being young and having people writing about you everywhere, whether they're saying you're a smart guy or an asshole. And I had plenty of both." Hal Hartley

Jean-Luc Godard

"I am not an auteur, well, not now anyway. We once believed we were auteurs but we weren't. We had no idea, really." Jean-Luc Godard

Wes Anderson

"I rely on corduroy. My suits last a couple of years. I have a guy who makes them specially for me. They're very inexpensive and I can just call him up and say, 'Can I have another one please?'" Wes Anderson.

Darren Aronofsky

“I’ve come to welcome chaos and mistakes into my work, and actually invite them in as much as possible, because I think that’s where poetry and freedom shoot out of, is all the mistakes.” Darren Aronofsky

Claire Denis

"There's not much violence in my film but what there is springs from something very deep. I would say it's about love in a way. And what happens when you tangle with something that is stronger than you are." Claire Denis

Spike Jonze

"Not everyone can be a world-renowned puppeteer – but damn it, that doesn't mean you can't perform, entertain, and shine as vividly as any of the greats." Spike Jonze