‘There is no point having sharp images when you’ve fuzzy ideas’ – Jean-Luc Godard. Working here with Jean-Paul Belmondo on Pierrot Le Fou.

‘Cinema’s characteristic forte is its ability to capture and communicate the intimacies of the human mind’ – Satyajit Ray. Thanks @TARS1970.

‘I write with the camera. It is my typewriter’ – Samuel Fuller. And thanks again @RomanPBone1.

‘The struggle for self-determination, the struggle for what a character wants his life to be . . . I look for characters who feel strongly enough about something not to be concerned with the prevailing odds, but to struggle against those odds.’ – Robert Alrich. And thanks to @Cassiebingo for this.

‘I don’t believe in censorship in any form’ – Kathryn Bigelow. @_Revolver76 suggested this.

‘For me, cinema is a vice. I love it intimately’ – Fritz Lang. Suggested by @Hansolofsven and @Marniepenny.

‘I live in cinema. I feel I’ve lived here forever’ – Agnès Varda. Nominated by @Cheshellen and @RomanPBone1.

‘It was actually the enormous risks I took with my pictures, skating right up to the edge of non-acceptance, that paid off so handsomely’ – Preston Sturges. Working here with Veronica Lake on Sullivan’s Travels. Nominated by @Matt_Carter1972 and @AndrewJCrowther.

‘I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing’ – Francis Ford Coppola. Thank-you @Dean_Frey.

‘There are certain things that happen during the production of, I think, every film, that you didn’t plan, and often it’s better than what you did plan. There’s the question of either going with it or not’ – William Friedkin, here on the set of The Exorcist. And finally, thanks to @TedtoToe for this.