Lulu Wang Quotes

I like so many different directors: Scorsese, Coppola, Cassavetes, Jarmusch, Gus van Sant, Woody Allen and the greats like Fellini, Bergman, Tarkovsky and among current filmmakers von Trier, Ang Lee, Wong Kar-wai.

I'm influenced by a lot of filmmakers; I like English filmmakers because I feel a kin to them.

I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.

My favorite favorites are people like Bunuel, Fellini and Charlie Chaplin.

I think Woody Allen calls it 'anxiety of influence.' When you're in your formative years and you watch a movie that makes you want to make movies... For Wes Anderson, it's Truffaut. I'm sure for P.T. Anderson it was Scorsese and Jonathan Demme.

I would like to work with people whose films I really like: Walter Salles, Woody Allen, Julio Medem.

In terms of directing, there's a number of directors who definitely had a great impact on me, Woody Allen certainly being one of them.

I'm very influenced by documentary filmmaking and independent filmmaking, by a lot of noir and films from the '40s. Those are my favorite. And then, filmmaking from the '70s is a big influence for me.

Gozu' was influenced by American cinema.

I'm a huge film buff. If it wasn't for Martin Scorcese, Shyam Benegal and Govind Nihalani, I wouldn't be here.

Akira Kurosawa, David Lean and Alfred Hitchcock were the main inspirations for 'Samurai Jack,' along with a lot of '70s cinema.

I would certainly say that films like Time Code and the Loss of Sexual Innocence were far more rewarding to me in terms of being able to move forward as a filmmaker.

What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.

I was influenced by European movies, old Fellini, old Kurosawa - any sort of foreign film.

I'd love to work with Tarantino, Scorsese, Sofia Coppola - all of them! I love thrillers and action movies. I love good horror films. I watched them so much when I was younger that I find it impossible to get scared.

However, that old mode of Polish filmmaking virtually disappeared.

How would you compare Polanski or Kubrick? I try not to do any comparisons.

My sense is, I think it's okay for directors to do movies that speak to other work in their career.

I really wanted to write the way Kubrick makes films - 'Strangelove,' '2001', 'Clockwork Orange', 'Barry Lyndon' - they're all so different.

The movies I respond to are by guys like the Coen brothers and Edgar Wright, where it's hard to fit them into any one box.

I worked for John Ford, Howard Hawks, Henry Hathaway, Raoul Walsh - I worked for some real good directors.

I guess that in this process of trying to incorporate or to be faithful to the films I admire so much, that's how I start to find my own voice. The admiration I have for filmmakers, this gratitude, perhaps that's my only way to become specific.

I like David Lynch; I like Stanley Kubrick. I'm a big fan of Kubrick.

I was watching 'Pulp Fiction' when we were making 'Now and Then'. I didn't care about 'Now and Then,' you know?

I think Ingmar Bergman, Francoise Truffaut - all these people created images in my mind, beautiful pictures, I loved what was known at that time as the foreign film.