“Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater. “ Roman Polanski

“Everybody has something that chews them up and, for me, that thing was always loneliness. The cinema has the power to make you not feel lonely, even when you are.” Tom Hanks

“Everything I learned I learned from the movies.” Audrey Hepburn

“Cinema is universal, beyond flags and borders and passports.” Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

“Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking…Entertain, but also, give the viewer something to think about…Use film-making to eliminate racism – use to it terminate misogyny – use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness… Use film-making for a greater purpose, than to just entertain some…

“The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second.” Jean Luc Godard

“Every great film should seem new every time you see it.” Roger Ebert

“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