Film

“Não fiz um filme sobre o Cinema Novo, mas com o Cinema Novo.”

“その「表現」のみに力点を置く描法をとっています。”

“I just try to make the best film I can.”

“Cinema is an art of the present. It’s not about yesterday or tomorrow—it’s about today!”

““Now we should talk about our history, make films about the human condition, the everyday drama of people, and I think, sophisticated comedies, good comedies.””

“Making films that are liked isn’t the be all and end all.”

“Es un filme crítico, pero hecho desde dentro, que pretende desatar una reflexión sobre problemas que tenemos en Cuba y que deben ser superados.”

““Cry Freetown” was just the wake-up call.”

“Dulu, filem kita disanjung tinggi kerana cerita dan kandungan yang mengangkat budaya hingga meninggalkan impak dari generasi ke generasi walaupun ia diterbitkan dalam kekangan modal dan teknologi.”

“To make a film is easy, to make a good film is war. To make a very good film is a miracle.”

“They are the ones that will tell you what the story is, not you.”

“السينما أعظم رسالة إعلام”

“Montage is the organization of cinematic material.”

“« Le cinéma est un art du présent. Ce n’est pas hier ou demain, c’est aujourd’hui ! »”

“The screen must be charged with the electricity of tragedy.”

“I took it like a lesson from the old master, who taught me that an animal can move the audience even more strongly than any humans.”

“I can think of nothing else than this wretched art of cinema, which I hate and which, no doubt, I love at the same time.”

“I don't know why I film but I am inhabited by a whole people and I must bear witness to my epoch.”