“True realism consists in revealing the surprising things which habit keeps covered and prevents us from seeing” – Jean Cocteau

The great Jacques Tati in his own, Jour de Fête [1949]. Nominated by @Valeriedekeyser. Tati can also be found on the Top 10 Pipe-Smoker Filmmakers list.

“It is art’s task to make manifest the contradictions of being” – Sergei Eisenstein. Nominated by @tbflatley.

David Lynch in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me [1992]. Thank-you @GloriaBB2!

“Our dreams are our real life. My fantasies and obsessions are not only my reality, but the stuff of which my films are made.” – Federico Fellini

“Director Ken Russell on what he called “the God-phone” (“He usually puts me on hold”)” – according to @awhitetable!

“I confess to having made films because they were in countries I wanted to visit.” – John Huston. Suggested by @RomanPBone1.

“I think cinema, movies and magic have always been closely associated. The very earliest people who made films were magicians.” – Francis Ford Coppola. And thanks to @Pointedfinger for this.

“If I won’t be myself, who will?” – Alfred Hitchcock. Thanks to @preservation76 for this. Here during production for Topaz in 1969.

“Everything about me is a contradiction, and so is everything about everybody else. We are made out of oppositions; we live between two poles. There’s a philistine and an aesthete in all of us, and a murderer and a saint. You don’t reconcile the poles. You just recognize them.” ― Orson Welles. Thanks again @Pointedfinger. Here’s some wise words from Welles …