"As a filmmaker you make your films with the audience you want to attract in mind."

“I believe that there is an important kernel of truth in the idea that financial errors recur every other generation.”

“When you've got a great business going, you go open another and take the risk of losing the whole thing. It's fun!”

“I lead verbally, not by example.”

Source : Twitter post from May 19, 2014

“My movie is born first in my head, dies on paper; is resuscitated by the living persons and real objects I use, which are killed on film but, placed in a certain order and projected on to a screen, come to life again like flowers in water.”

Source : Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.13, New York Review of Books

“A scout troop consists of twelve little kids dressed like schmucks following a big schmuck dressed like a kid.”

“I treat every race the same. We all wanted to swim fast today and give something back to the crowd.”

“After working for years in Hollywood where the actors have taken over, it was a real relief to get down there and not only have some children, but also have some actors that had no attitude.”

“There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism.”

Source : "Theses on the Philosophy of History" by Walter Benjamin, translated by Harry Zohn, Illuminations, (VII), 1973.