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This page will be updated with inspiring/cool quotes from filmmakers I respect and admire.

Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film, also knows that although it can be like trying to write War And Peace in a bumper car in an amusement park. But when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling. - Stanley Kubrick

What cinema verite tried to do was to present just the accountant’s truth. They were too fact-oriented. I have always postulated that we have to find a new way to deal with reality. It’s not so much facts that interest me, but a deeper truth in them—an ecstasy of truth, an ecstatic truth that illuminates us. That’s what I’ve been after. And in order to find it, you have to be imaginative. You have to invent. You have to stylize. There’s absolutely no danger in that. The danger is to stupidly believe that depicting facts gives us much insight. If facts were the only thing that counted, the telephone directory would be the book of books. -Werner Herzog