Olivier Megaton Quotes

I am a big fan of Jim Jarmusch, and I do love big screen documentaries.

Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.

I like Soderbergh, Spielberg, Lucas. There's a lot of talented guys out there obviously, and if you're a fan of films, you have to look at that stuff and learn from them.

And I took a long time to appreciate Lynch.

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

I'd love to do a Michel Gondry film. That would be ideal! I'd love to do an Almodovar film; you know, I think he's very, very talented. I don't care that people say he's pretentious. So what? He's a good director; he can be pretentious.

I'm a huge fan of Akira Kurosawa, a big Hitchcock fan.

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

Quentin Tarantino is interested in watching somebody's ear getting cut off; David Lynch is interested in the ear.

Truffaut loved Hitchcock.

Louis Malle is maybe one of my favorite directors, but I love Tarantino.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

I like the absurd and the surreal: the Coen brothers, Bunuel, Kubrick.

I was in college in the sixties when movies really got good. I'm a fan of Bergman and Hitchcock and Polanski and Antonioni. Those are my gods.

I have always been a great fan of Peter Chan and many other great directors who specialize in anything outside of action.

Fellini and Bunuel changed my life for me, they are my favourites. If it is true that movies are dreams, both of them, Fellini and Bunuel were shooting in a dream way.

I love what many of my contemporaries are doing, especially people like Terry Gilliam, David Cronenberg, P. T. Anderson, and Alfonso Cuaron.

I can say that I've become a David Fincher disciple. I have been completely turned.

I'm inspired by film-makers such as Ridley Scott, David Fincher, Orson Welles.

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

Many people who have watched 'Pieta' have said my filmmaking has become more objective.

I go through periods, usually when I'm editing and shooting, of seeing only old films.

I admire David Lynch so much, and I think he made some bad decisions with Lost Highway.

I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and all Fellini movies and like everybody else I loved John Ford. Then and now, I loved Preston Sturges, maybe above anyone.

Well, I certainly was exposed to and learned to appreciate the work of great directors early on. As a kid, my mother used to take me to see really interesting arty films in Los Angeles.