You can really learn a lot from people through their words; it surprises me how people can articulate exactly how I feel.

• Bruce LaBruce: “I believe virtually all horror movies are about homosexual panic. Speaking of Freud and Freddy, what is that fear about if not castration?”
• David Cronenberg: “Anybody who comes to the cinema is bringing their whole sexual history, their literary history, their movie literacy, their culture, their language, their religion, whatever they've got. I can't possibly manipulate all of that, nor do I want to.”
• David Fincher: "I don't know how much movies should entertain. To me I'm always interested in movies that scar. The thing I love about JAWS is that I've never gone swimming in the ocean again."
• David Lynch: “I don't think about technique. The ideas dictate everything. You have to be true to that or you're dead.”
• Harmony Korine: “What I remember myself from films, and what I love about films, is specific scenes and characters.”
• Jim Jarmusch: “I always start with characters rather than with a plot, which many critics would say is very obvious from the lack of plot in my films - although I think they do have plots - but the plot is not of primary importance to me, the characters are. ”
• Lucio Fulci: “Cinema is everything to me. I live and breathe films — I even eat them!”
• Quentin Tarantino: “I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”