Maybe my films are not masterpieces, but they are documents of their time. That's enough for me. Masterpieces I can't do - even though I try.

也许我的作品算不上经典，但是它们都是时代的记录，这样对我来说足够了，我尝试过但确实拍不来创世经典。

I think the more pessimistic I feel about life, the more optimistic the films should be.

我对生活越悲观，我的电影就越乐观。

Hollywood has melted everyone's brains. In the old days you had one murder and that was enough for a story. Now you have to kill 300,000 people just to get the audience's attention.

好莱坞已经摧毁了每个人的智商，过去一场谋杀可以成就一部影片，现在你得杀死三十万人来引起观众的注意。

I like dogs, mankind I don't care for too much. You're supposed to like mankind because you're part of it, but I prefer dogs. They are honest and they don't lie.

我喜欢狗，我并不太关心人类, 按理来说你应该喜欢同类因为你是其中一员，但是我更喜欢狗因为他们很诚实，从来不撒谎。

When I write, I am sober. I can direct drunk. I can't edit or write drunk.

我写作时必须是清醒的，拍电影可以醉了拍，但是剪辑或写作时必须清醒。

— 阿基·考里斯马基 Aki Kaurismaki



It's easy to fool the eye but it's hard to fool the heart.

骗得过眼睛愚不了心。

My weaknesses... I wish I could come up with something. I'd probably have the same pause if you asked me what my strengths are. Maybe they're the same thing.

我的弱点...真希望我能给出答案，如果你问我的优点估计我也是这反应，也许两者皆同吧。

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

我认为演员不该期冀得到角色，因为失望的打击太大.你得把一切都看成是机会，比如一次试镜就是你得到观众欣赏的好机会。

I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.

我是演员不是明星，明星们都住在好莱坞，有着心形的游泳池。

— 阿尔·帕西诺 Al Pacino



In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director.

故事片的上帝是导演，纪录片的导演是上帝。

Drama is life with the dull bits cut out.

剧情片就是被删掉无聊部分的现实生活。

The length of a film should be directly related to the endurance of the human bladder.

电影的长度应该符合人体膀胱的承受时限。

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

金发美人是扮演受害者的最佳选择，她们就像现出血脚印的初雪一样。

If it's a good movie, the sound could go off and the audience would still have a perfectly clear idea of what was going on.

一部好电影在静音后观众仍能弄清它的情节进展。

— 阿尔弗雷德·希区柯克 Alfred Hitchcock



A director must be a policeman, a midwife, a psychoanalyst, a sycophant and a bastard.

导演必须身兼数职：警察，接生婆，心理分析学家，马屁精和混蛋。

Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else's.

相信你的直觉，这样就算错了也是自己的，不能怨其他人。

An audience is never wrong. An individual member of it may be an imbecile, but a thousand imbeciles together in the dark - that is critical genius.

观众是不可能错的，也许会有一个白痴观众，但是一千个白痴坐在黑暗中看电影--他们就都是顶级影评家。

You have to have a dream so you can get up in the morning.

你必须有梦想，这样早晨起床才有动力。

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

快乐的定义就是与 Jack Lemmon一起工作。

— 比利·怀尔德 Billy Wilder



The Best Actors Instinctively Feel out What the Other Actors Need, and They Just Accommodate It.

一流的演员可以本能地发现他人的需要并调整自己去适应他们。

— 克里斯托弗·诺兰 Christopher Nolan



Film is a dramatised reality and it is the director's job to make it appear real... an audience should not be conscious of technique.

电影是被戏剧化的现实，导演的工作是还原它的真实性...观众不应该注意到拍摄技术。

I like making films about characters I`d like to have dinner with.

我喜欢创造那些我愿与之共进晚餐的角色。

When the great actor says the line, you can put scissors precisely at the point A and it`s wonderful. When the star says the line, you can hold for four frames longer because something else happens.

当一个好演员念出台词，你可以精确地喊停拍出美妙的片段. 当一个明星念台词时，你会多拍出四帧因为感觉不大对劲。

I wouldn`t take the advice of a lot of so-called critics on how to shoot a close-up of a teapot.

我不会采纳那些自己为是影评家的意见去拍摄一个茶壶特写镜头。

— 大卫·里恩 David Lean



Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.

生活是非常非常复杂的，电影也应当如此。

The concept of absurdity is something I'm attracted to.

我对荒诞的本质非常着迷。

It makes me uncomfortable to talk about meanings and things. It's better not to know so much about what things mean. Because the meaning, it's a very personal thing, and the meaning for me is different than the meaning for somebody else.

我不愿意谈论事物和它们的意义，少知道这些意义其实更好. 因为它是一件非常私人化的东西，而且大家对意义的理解都各有千秋。

Sex is a doorway to something so powerful and mystical, but movies usually depict it in a completely flat way.

性爱是通往一种强大和神秘事情的途径，但电影里对它的诠释总是如此苍白。

Sometimes I get an idea for cinema. And when you get an idea that you fall in love with, this is a glorious day.

有时候我会有突发其来的电影灵感，如果这个灵感让你无法自拔，这将会是个美妙无比的日子。

— 大卫·林奇 David Lynch



Nobody should try to play comedy unless they have a circus going on inside.

你要是没有一个马戏团最好别轻易玩喜剧。

The most uninhibited person I have ever worked with.（On Garbo）

评价嘉宝：我合作过最不受周遭拘束的演员。

Any good movie is filled with secrets. If a director doesn't leave anything unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture's unsaid, it's a lousy picture. If a picture is good, it's mysterious, with things unsaid.

任何一部好电影都应该处处含隐秘, 如果导演把一切都摊在桌面, 那就是下乘之作. 如果影片太过晦涩也是不可取的. 一部优秀的影片应该具有让观众探索深究的悬疑元素。

There are a thousand ways to point a camera, but really only one.

机位有几千种，但只有一种是最适合的。

— 恩斯特·刘别谦 Ernst Lubitsch



A good director is not sure when he gets on the set what he's going to do.

一个好导演到了片场是不知道要干嘛的。

Every fighter has one fight that makes or breaks him.

每个斗士都会有一场不是遗臭万年就是流芳千古的比赛。

I spoke without fear of contradiction. I simply did not suffer self-doubt.

我说话从来不怕自我矛盾，我很享受自我怀疑的过程。

— 伊利亚·卡赞 Elia Kazan



A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.

一个预感就是创意在向你招手。

I made mistakes in drama. I thought drama was when actors cried. But drama is when the audience cries.

过去我误解了戏剧的意义，我以为当演员哭泣时便产生了戏剧，但其实它的诞生是观众哭泣的时刻。

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

干电影这行， 你也许有盖博的英俊脸蛋，屈塞的艺术细胞，黛德丽的性感长腿或泰勒的紫罗兰美眸. 但如果你没有过人的胆识，其他都是浮云。

Scriptwriting is the toughest part of the whole racket... the least understood and the least noticed.

剧本写作是电影制作最困难的一个环节，也是最容易被忽视和理解的。

— 弗兰克·卡普拉 Frank Capra



There’s nothing creative about living within your means.

局限在自己特定的处事方式中是毫无创意可言的。

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

你必须勇于表达自己的直觉和想法，不然永远都不会出头，而那些本可能成为经典的东西就白白浪费了。

I think cinema, movies, and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made film were magicians.

电影和魔术总是有着紧密的联系，最初拍电影的人不就是魔术师吗。

The essence of cinema is editing. It's the combination of what can be extraordinary images of people during emotional moments, or images in a general sense, put together in a kind of alchemy.

电影的精髓在于剪辑，它是对人们真情流露时刻那些美好画面的一种组合，或者就是画面的组合，这个过程就好像魔法一样。

— 弗朗西斯·福特·科波拉 Francis Ford Coppola



About CinemaScope: "It`s only good for funerals and snakes."

宽银幕电影只适合葬礼和蛇。

There was a time when all I looked for was a good story, but nowadays everything has to look like the size of Mount Rushmore, and the actors in close- up look as though they belong there.

在过去我最注重的是一个好的故事，但现在一切都需要夸张的大场面，尤其特写镜头让演员看来好像只能局限于那。

Each picture has some sort of rhythm which only the director can give it. He has to be like the captain of a ship.

每部影片都有导演赋予的一种特定节奏，他就像是指导航行的船长。

I do not like producers.

我讨厌制片人。

— 弗里茨·朗 Fritz Lang



If somebody has a better idea than me, I will take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it is me that takes the credit anyway!

如果有人主意比我的好，比我们现有的高超，我会采纳因为到头来功劳都归导演得。

We're quite volatile as individuals, but that doesn't work exponentially when we are together. Relationships are about eating humble pie.

单独来说我们都很有个性，但这在团队合作是没什么效果的，团体关系的关键在于谦逊。

— 盖·里奇 Guy Ritchie



I’m a storyteller – that’s the chief function of a director. And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ‘em move!

我是个讲故事的人，这是导演的首要功能，电影就是移动的画面，大家一起动起来吧！

There's action only if there is danger.

没有危险元素就没有情节。

I don't think plot as a plot means much today. I'd say that everybody has seen every plot twenty times. What they haven't seen is characters and their relation to one another. I don't worry much about plot anymore.

我觉得电影情节已经没有过去那么重要了，大家都对情节模式了如指掌. 他们不了解的是角色以及角色之间的联系，所以我已经不大关心情节设计了。

Women liked Gable best when he played a heavy with a grin.

Gable最让女人们心驰神往的就是他深深咧嘴一笑。

— 霍华德·霍克斯 Howard Hawks



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.

没有任何一种艺术形式能像电影一样解剖我们的道德, 直触我们的情感并且深深照亮装载我们灵魂的暗黑空间(伯格曼说的话就像他的作品一样大。

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

我写的剧本就像一具等待画面带来筋腱与生命的骨架。

When film is not a document, it is dream.

电影如果不是纪录片，它就是一场梦。

I don't want to produce a work of art that the public can sit and suck aesthetically…. I want to give them a blow in the small of the back, to scorch their indifference, to startle them out of their complacency.

我不想创造一件所有人都坐下安然欣赏的艺术品，我要给他们来个背后一击和猛然一惊，去除他们的冷漠，瓦解他们的自大。

We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

我们总是在原地踏步，被自己的不安局限以至于无法分辨真假，无法分辨恶棍的臆想和纯洁的理想。

— 英格玛·伯格曼 Ingmar Bergman



I’m like a navigator and I try to encourage our collaboration and find the best way that will produce fruit. I like fruit. I like cherries, I like bananas.

我就好像指导员一样鼓励大家找到生产水果的最佳合作方法，我喜欢水果，我喜欢樱桃，香蕉...

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.

我总是从人物开始构思而不是情节，很多影评人说我的作品明显缺乏情节. 我觉得它们有情节，但不是至关重要，人物才是。

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

我没有纽约大学的毕业证书，他们后来颁给我一个荣誉证书。

— 吉姆·贾木许 Jim Jarmusch



A Director Makes Only One Movie in His Life. Then He Breaks It Into Pieces and Makes It Again.

一个导演一生只拍一部电影，然后他将它打破解构并且重新塑造。

I believe that perfection handicaps cinema.

我相信完美主义对电影创作是大大不利的。

The saving grace of the cinema is that with patience and a little love we may arrive at that wonderfully complex creature which is called man.

电影的好处在于，一点耐心加一点爱我们就能创作出最复杂美妙的生物-人类。

My dream is of a craftsman's cinema in which the author can express himself as directly as the painter in his paintings or the writer in his books.

我的梦想就是电影作者在其作品中能如同画家和作家一样直接地表达自己。

— 让·雷诺阿 Jean Renoir



I Don’t Try to Guess What a Million People Will Like. It’s Hard Enough to Know What I Like.

我不会去揣测几百万人的喜好是什么，弄明白我自己喜欢什么就够折腾的了。

What to do when inspiration doesn't come; be careful not to spook, get the wind up, force things into position. You must wait around until the idea comes.

当灵感降临时当心别把它吓跑了，别煽风点火勉强行动. 你得耐心等待，好主意会水到渠成的。

— 约翰·休斯顿 John Huston



“We did everything wrong, technically… The only thing we did right was to get a group of people together who were young, full of life, and wanted to do something of meaning.”

技术层面来说，我们糟糕透顶...但有一件事作对了，就是把一群胸有大志的热血青年号召在一起。

As an artist, I feel that we must try many things - but above all we must dare to fail.

作为艺术家我觉得我们得尝试很多东西，但首要一点就是不怕失败。

No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

不管你多大年纪，只要创作欲望还在，你的内心仍是年轻的。

You must be willing to risk everything to really express it all.

如果要完全表达自己的想法，你必须敢用一切做赌注。

— 约翰·卡索维茨 John Cassavetes



A story should have a beginning, a middle and an end… but not necessarily in that order.

故事应该要有开始,过程和结尾, 但不一定要这个顺序。

Cinema is the most beautiful fraud in the world.

电影是世上最美的骗术。

I pity the French Cinema because it has no money. I pity the American Cinema because it has no ideas.

我很同情法国电影因为它没资金，我也同情美国电影因为它没内容。

Photography is Truth. The Cinema is Truth Twenty-four Times Per Second.

摄影是真相，电影则是每秒二十四次的真相。

Art attracts us only by what it reveals of our most secret self.

艺术之所以吸引我们因为它能揭示我们最隐秘的自我。

— 让-吕克·戈达尔 Jean-Luc Godard



If there’s specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can’t change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

如果反对女人拍电影的话，我选择忽视这个障碍，第一：我无法变性 第二：我无法停止拍电影。

— 凯瑟琳·毕格罗 Kathryn Bigelow



A style is not a matter of camera angles or fancy footwork, it’s an expression, an accurate expression of your particular opinion.

风格并不是特别的摄影角度或者华丽的运镜，它是种表达方式，一种对你自己观点的精确表达方式。

— 卡雷尔·赖兹 Karel Reisz



Life is Like a B-picture Script. It is That Corny. If I Had My Life Story Offered to Me to Film, I’d Turn It Down.

生活就像一部B级片剧本烂俗至极，如果要我拍自己的生活故事，我才不会接这个烂本子。

— 柯克·道格拉斯 Kirk Douglas



(When asked what a director does) I help.

（有人问，我导演是干嘛的时候）帮助其他人。

The television industry doesn't like to see the compexity of the world. It prefers simple reporting, with simple ideas: this is white, that's black; this is good, that's bad.

电视工业不喜欢挖掘世界的复杂性，它喜欢简单的报道简单的事情，黑与白，好与坏。

To tell you the truth, in my work, love is always in opposition to the elements. It creates dilemmas. It brings in suffering. We can't live with it, and we can't live without it. You'll rarely find a happy ending in my work.

实话告诉你，在我的工作中，爱总是其他元素的对立面. 因为它制造困境. 它让人痛苦，我们不能忍受它也无法失去它. 我的电影中很少有皆大欢喜的结局。

— 克日什托夫·基耶斯洛夫斯基 Krzysztof Kieslowski



Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

幸好机会和神秘之间是想象力，它是唯一能捍卫我们自由的东西. 就算人们总是试图减少或扼杀它们。

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

坦白说，就算我很讨厌新闻，但每过十年我还是会从地下爬出来买几份报纸看看。

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

诗人这种偏执狂是天生的，无法后天训练。

Give me two hours a day of activity, and I'll take the other twenty-two in dreams.

每天让我活动2小时，剩下22小时我会用来做梦。

— 路易斯·布努埃尔 Luis Buñuel



You know what I would like to do: make a film with actors standing in empty space so that the spectator would have to imagine the background of the characters.

你知道吗，我很想拍部所有演员站在一个空白空间的电影，这样观众就得自己去想象角色的背景。

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

好莱坞就是一个毫无意义的地方:一群毫无意义的人说着毫无意义的话。

We live in a society that compels us to go on using these concepts, and we no longer know what they mean.

社会总是迫使我们遵循这些固有的观念，虽然我们根本不知道这些观念的本质意义何在。

When a scene is being shot, it is very difficult to know what one wants it to say, and even if one does know, there is always a difference between what one has in mind and the result on film.

当拍好一场戏时很难弄清它原本要表达什么，就算弄清了，创作理念和现实成果之间总是会有差距。

I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn't advanced as far as science.

我就是这个意思：我们被自己的文化所束缚住了，这种文化要比科技发展落后的多。

— 米开朗基罗·安东尼奥尼 Michelangelo Antonioni



A typewriter needs only paper; a camera uses film, requires subsidiary equipment by the truckload and Wellington several hundreds of technicians. That is always the central fact about the filmmakers opposed to any other artist: he can never afford his own tools.

打字员只需要纸张而已，摄影机却需要胶片，一车车的配套设备和百余技术员. 现实就是电影人和其他艺术家都不同: 他连自己的工具都负担不起。

We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone.

我们孤独地出生，生活，死去，只有获得爱与友情时才能创造一个短暂幻象相信自己不是孤独的。

A film is never really good unless the camera is an eye in the head of a poet.

电影永远不够完美，除非摄影机是诗人的一只眼睛。

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated, something is wrong.

一个伟大的艺术家应该是孤立的，反之就有问题了。

— 奥逊·威尔斯 Orson Welles



If a Million People See My Movie, I Hope They See a Million Different Movies.

如果有一百万人看我的电影，我希望他们看到的是一百万部不同的电影。

When people ask me if I went to film school I tell them, 'no, I went to films.’

人们问我有没有去过电影学校时，我告诉他们：没有，我去过电影世界。

I steal from every movie ever made.

我从所有电影中取经。

To me, movies and music go hand in hand. When I'm writing a script, one of the first things I do is find the music I'm going to play for the opening sequence.

在我看来电影和音乐不可分家，我写剧本时首先要找到开场时用的背景音乐。

— 昆汀·塔伦蒂诺 Quentin Tarantino



It isn't easy to accept that suffering can also be beautiful... it's difficult. It's something you can only understand if you dig deeply into yourself.

人们很难接受苦难也可以很美丽这样一个事实，非常难，只有你深深挖掘自己内心才能理解它。

The Jews have never been ashamed of being Jews, whereas homosexuals have been stupid enough to be ashamed of their homosexuality.

犹太人从来没以自己的身份为耻，但同性恋者却蠢到一直为自己的本质感到耻辱。

So certainly, if we can tell evil stories to make people sick, we can also tell good myths that make them well.

当然啦，如果我们不用邪恶的故事引起观众反感，也可以用好听的童话传说把他们哄骗舒服。

The more real things get, the more like myths they become.

真实性越大就越可能成为不朽之作。

— 赖纳·维尔纳·法斯宾德 Rainer Werner Fassbinder



It’s all just one film to me. Just different chapters.

其实我就只有一部电影，只不过不同章节罢了.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

电影制作是让你经历不同人生的一个好机会.

— 罗伯特·奥特曼 Robert Altman



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.

我的电影首先在脑海诞生然后在纸上死去，我创造的真实人物和物体再使它复活，但这些在胶片上都被摧毁.当他们被排列成某种次序出现银幕上时便又活过来，就好像把花朵放于水中。

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

电影的产生在于忽略其中人物的意愿，利用他们本身的特质而不是他们的行为。

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

如果你不知道自己在干什么那是很好的征兆，这叫在即兴创作。

Cinema, radio, television, magazines are a school of inattention: people look without seeing, listen in without hearing.

电影电台电视和杂志就是一本掠夺“注意力”的教科书，让人们总是视而不见，听而不闻。

— 罗伯特·布列松 Robert Bresson



My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you’ve got to be a filmmaker.

我的三个准则，激情，耐心和毅力，你要从事电影这一行就得有这些。

You know, people always think if you start out as a film editor, you shoot less footage. Actually, just the opposite is true. I tend to grab as much coverage as I can because as a former editor I know how important it is to have those few frames.

如果你是剪辑师出身，人们总觉得你会省些胶片. 但其实正好相反，我总是尽可能地多拍一些. 因为剪辑经验让我意识到仅有的这些胶片有多珍贵。

As I've always said, preproduction is so important. When you cast the actors, you've done much of the work. Now, you may need to guide them a little, take it up or down, have them go faster or slower, but the casting process is crucial.

我总是告诉人们前期制作的重要性, 选角的时候已经差不多大功告成了，现在你可能要给他们些指点，告诉他们方向或速度，但选角过程至关重要。

— 罗伯特·怀斯 Robert Wise



Cinema should make you forget you are sitting in a theater.

电影应该让你忘记自己正坐在电影院中。

You have to show violence the way it is. If you don't show it realistically, then that's immoral and harmful. If you don't upset people, then that's obscenity.

你必须真实地表现暴力，不然就显得不道德而具冒犯性. 如果你不能震撼人们，那就会变得低级。

My films are the expression of momentary desires. I follow my instincts, but in a disciplined way.

我的电影是对短暂欲望的解析表达，我顺从我的直觉，但以一种理性的方式。

Normal love isn't interesting. I assure you that it's incredibly boring.

寻常爱情一点意思也没有，我保证你它无聊透顶。

— 罗曼·波兰斯基 Roman Polanski



A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what’s behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.

比起小说来，电影应该更像音乐．它应该是递增发展的情感和情绪. 情感和涵义之外的主题都是次要的。

It's crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.

有时当你陷入一团乱时最荒唐的就是你不仅无法理性思考它，而且也无法思考任何其他事情。

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

伟大的国家总是具有黑帮的姿态，而弱势国家就像被压迫的妓女一般。

When a man cannot choose, he ceases to be a man.

让一个男人没有任何选择时，他会选择不再做一个男人。

— 斯坦利·库布里克 Stanley Kubrick



Editing feels almost like sculpting or a form of continuing the writing process.

剪辑就像是对写作不断塑形与雕刻的过程。

— 西德尼·波拉克 Sydney Pollack



I would travel down to Hell and wrestle a film away from the devil if it was necessary.

如果必要的话，我会下到地狱从与恶魔博斗抢过一部电影。

Every man should pull a boat over a mountain once in his life.

每个人一生至少都该背着船翻过山一次。

Film should be looked at straight on; it is not the art of scholars but of illiterates.

电影应该被简单直白地看待，它属于没有教育背景的群众，而不是艺术学者。

I work very fast and steadily, and I don't hardly ever notice that I'm working. It feels like just breathing or walking when I do films.

工作时的我有效率且沉稳，我根本意识不到自己在工作，因为拍电影就好像呼吸和走路一般自然。

— 沃纳·赫尔佐格 Werner Herzog



I made over forty Westerns. I used to lie awake nights trying to think up new ways of getting on and off a horse.
我拍了四十多部西部片，有时候半夜睡不着觉就为了想出一个上下马的新姿势。

It's eighty percent script and twenty percent you get great actors. There's nothing else to it.

电影八成靠剧本两成在于演员，如此而已。

It is always a great pleasure to work with an actress who is so professional. She is eager to do a good job; you never have to tell her what a scene was about -- you just have to calm her down once in a while and keep her from becoming over-enthusiastic.

与一名专业女演员合作总是非常享受的， 她对工作一般非常热忱，你从不需要去解说某场戏---只是偶尔得让她冷静点以免狂热过火了。

— 沃纳·赫尔佐格 Werner Herzog



The More Opinions You Have, the Less You See.

你评价的越多，看见的就越少。

Any film that supports the idea that things can be changed is a great film in my eyes.

任何一部支持革新的电影在我眼中都是好电影。

Entertainment today constantly emphasises the message that things are wonderful the way they are. But there is another kind of cinema, which says that change is possible and necessary and it's up to you.

今天的娱乐业总是过度强调事物美妙的一面，但世上还有另一种电影，它意味着改变是可行的也是必要的，而这决定权在于你。

Neither Rainer Werner, nor any of us could have succeeded, or produced the number of films that we did, just on our own. We showed our films to each other, discussed them vigorously and rarely agreed.

不管是法斯宾德还是其中任何一个（德国新电影导演），我们如果孤军奋战是不可能有今天的成就和产量的. 我们所做的是互相欣赏对方的作品然后大加评论， 虽然很少赞同对方.

— 维姆·文德斯 Wim Wenders



If My Film Makes One More Person Miserable, I’ve Done My Job.

如果我的影片能再多折磨一个观众，我的目的就达到了。

I had a terrible education. I attended a school for emotionally disturbed teachers.

我的教育背景很糟糕，我去学校就是让老师心理失常的。

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

我总觉得冥冥之中有人暗暗注视着我们，不幸的是那只是政府而已。

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

我此生唯一的遗憾就是我不是另外一个人。

— 伍迪·艾伦 Woody Allen



For me, film-making combines everything. That's the reason I've made cinema my life's work. In films painting and literature, theatre and music come together. But a film is still a film.

对我来说电影涵盖了一切，这也是我将毕生献于电影事业的原因. 电影中可以包括绘画文学，戏剧音乐，但它本身最终是独一无二的。

With a good script, a good director can produce a masterpiece. With the same script, a mediocre director can produce a passable film. But with a bad script even a good director can't possibly make a good film. For truly cinematic expression, the camera and the microphone must be able to cross both fire and water. The script must be something that has the power to do this.

一个好剧本， 优秀的导演能拍出一部佳作，平庸的导演能拍出及格作品. 但如果是部烂本子，再棒的导演也拍不出好作品. 要创造出真正美妙的电影语言，摄影机和麦克风必须要能经受极端的考验，一个好剧本就是基础条件。

I like unformed characters. This may be because, no matter how old I get, I am still unformed myself.

我喜欢未成形的人物角色，这样不管我年纪多大自己都还有持续塑造的空间。

— 黑泽明 Akira Kurosawa



The creation of a single world comes from a huge number of fragments and chaos.

一个完整世界的建构取材于无数的碎片和混沌。

We depict hatred, but it is to depict that there are more important things. We depict a curse, to depict the joy of liberation.

我们描写仇恨是为了烘托其他更为重要的事物，我们刻画诅咒是为了铺垫自由解放的欢愉.

I would like to make a film to tell children "it's good to be alive".

我想要拍一部电影让孩子们知道“生活有多美好” 

— 宫崎骏 Hayao Miyazaki



The wide screen reminds me of a roll of toilet paper.

宽银幕让我想起一卷厕纸。

我要表现的是，透过子女的成长来窥探日本家族制度瓦解的过程。

电影不过是披着草包，站在桥下拉客的妓女。

— 小津安二郎 Yasujiro Ozu


（番茄青年实验室 独家编辑整理）