Chris Rock Quotes

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.

There is certainly a part of my filmmaking that harkens to a more simpler commercial kind of taste, but then with this there's certainly a kind of avant-garde, abstract, existential element to it.

I dream big, baby. I want to do thrillers, I want to do smart David Lynch-type mysteries.

I didn't have any ambition to produce big mainstream popcorn movies.

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.

The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

I think that David Lynch, he lives in a zone, and he expresses that zone to us with everything he does.

I like fantasy. I like horror, science fiction because I can get avant-garde with those performances in those movies.

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.

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

When I was going to film school, before film school, my hero was David Lynch.

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

My favorite movies are from directors that have a vision, like Wes Anderson or Tim Burton.

I've been pretty lucky to work with directors who were quite influenced by European cinema.

A lot of the surreal filmmakers, like David Lynch, Alejandro Jodorowsky, or countless other underground filmmakers... Their sense of explosive images have always dominated their films. It's a way to shock the senses, to make them open themselves.

Even if it flops, when you're sitting at the drawing table, you dream about seeing your work on the big screen, no matter what.

The director Steve McQueen has found a way to constantly include the element of surprise in his work, both as an artist and as a filmmaker.

There is a great deal of freshness and charm in '400 Blows.' There is also a great deal of visual poetry in the way in which Truffaut's camera looks at his beloved city.

All of my favorite directors are coming from a singular perspective, and I think that's been very lacking in film.

I want to do experimental films.

What I like to do with every film is to bring a form, like a cinematographic proposal. If you watch 'S21,' it's a form; 'Duch, Master of the Gates of Hell' is a different proposal.

Independent films are really the best ones out there. They're the most original stories, and they're very good.

I would say that all my films have more content than a 'content-driven film.' It is not easy to make such films.

David Lynch helped me be cool.